The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction

The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice