85. Modesty has
indeed its rocks—not any that she brings with her, but those, I
mean, which she often runs against, as when we associate with
profligate men, who, under the form of pleasantry, administer poison to
the good. And the latter, if they are very constant in their
attendance at banquets and games, and often join in jests, enervate
that manly gravity of theirs. Let us then take heed that, in
wishing to relax our minds, we do not destroy all harmony, the blending
as it were of all good works. For habit quickly bends nature in
another direction.