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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 131 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/131/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 131. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/131/"
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# Summa Theologica, Second Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

Courage and temperance, the states of life, then Christ, the sacraments and the last things.

## 131. II–II · Question 168: Of Modesty As Consisting in the Outward Movements of the Body (four  Articles)

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[¶0] OF MODESTY AS CONSISTING IN THE OUTWARD MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY (FOUR ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must next consider modesty as consisting in the outward movements of the body, and under this head there are four points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether there can be virtue and vice in the outward movements of the body that are done seriously?

[¶3] (2) Whether there can be a virtue about playful actions?

[¶4] (3) Of the sin consisting in excess of play;

[¶5] (4) Of the sin consisting in lack of play.