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| Concept: | Purity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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"as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]; "to the
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| Antonyms: | impurity |
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| Concept: | Modesty. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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"not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty" [Romeo and Juliet]; "thy modesty's a candle to thy merit" [Fielding].
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| Antonyms: | vanity |
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| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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| Antonyms: | imperfection |
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| Concept: | Simplicity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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veritatis simplex oratio est.
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| Antonyms: | ornament |
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| Concept: | Virtue. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
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esse quam videri bonus malebat [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus
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| Antonyms: | vice |
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| Concept: | Repute. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections; personal affections derived from the opinions or feelings of others) |
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one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever; sic itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but himself could be
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| Antonyms: | disrepute |
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