Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Modesty
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
"Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.