Publio Virgilio Marone
Humility and modesty often go hand in hand with human and intellectual greatness.
An example of this is what the immense poet Virgilio writes in a letter addressed to the Emperor Augustus on Aeneas, main character of the Aeneid , her masterpiece:
" About my Aeneas, for Hercules, if I had composed something worthy of your ears, I would gladly send it to you, but the work is so in its initial state that I seem to have dedicated myself to such a demanding work, almost with intellectual incapacity " .
The testimony is from the Latin writer Macrobius (Photo from:wikipedia.org).