The balance of the two is the straightforward and truthful character; asserting just what belongs to him, neither more nor less.

This is a kind of truthfulness,--distinguished from 'truth' in its more serious aspect, as discriminating between justice and injustice--and has a worth of its own; for he that is truthful in little things will be so in more important affairs (VII.).
In the playful intercourse of society, there is room for the virtue of Wit, a balance or mean between buffoonish excess, and the clownish dulness that can neither make nor enjoy a joke.

Here the man of refinement must be a law to himself (VIII.).
MODESTY [Greek: aidos] is briefly described, without being put through the comparison with its extremes.

It is more a feeling than a state, or settled habit.

It is the fear of ill-report; and has the physical expression of fear under danger--the blushing and the pallor.