Govern the desires for honor, glory, and esteem.
Humility is the moral virtue that moderates the desire for honor and inclines us to recognize our own worth in its true light. The habit of humility restrains us from pursuing honors that are unfitting or unattainable without falling into excessive self-deprecation. The virtues of humility and magnanimity are both required to pursue greatness properly: where magnanimity enables us to overcome the difficulties that are inherent in noble action, humility prevents us from desiring greatness inordinately.
And all the men and women merely players...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
They all were looking for a king...
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
Down in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew...
