Is modesty a virtue?

There is a good saying: modesty benefits, profit and loss. This motto vividly illustrates the importance of modesty and virtue, and can be used as the motto of each of us.

Tennyson, an English philosopher, once said: True modesty is the noblest virtue and the mother of all virtues. When talking about the famous sculptor Rodin, the Austrian poet Rilke once said a famous saying: Honor, in the final analysis, is the sum of all misunderstandings. This sentence aptly points out Rodin's life creed: never satisfied.

Modesty is the cornerstone of progress. There are people who are open-minded and knowledgeable, but there are no successful people who are arrogant. It can be seen that complacency is the enemy of career success. Someone made an extremely vivid metaphor: a man who seeks knowledge is like a container that will never be satisfied. It is precisely because there are many vacancies that he keeps learning, struggling and advancing. Socrates, known as the respect of wise men in ancient Greece, once said a very incisive sentence, he said: I am smart not because I value my own advantages more, but because I can recognize my own shortcomings.

Some people say that in modern society, emphasizing competition and self-expression is out of date, and modesty is synonymous with hypocrisy. In fact, there is an essential difference between the two. Modesty is only modesty, never complacent, and willing to accept criticism from others, while hypocrisy is a deceptive means to deliberately hide the truth of the matter and achieve some selfish purpose. Even the smallest hypocrisy is completely different from real modesty. Modesty is a virtue based on altruism, a combination of modesty and modesty, and a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.

Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind. Modesty is a virtue that should be adhered to at all times.