So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.