While reading an essay Lattice Theory- Its Birth and Life, the following line confused me:
modularity is a weakened form of distributivity
Just to be clear, here modularity and distributivity of lattices is being considered
The essay can be found here
A similar statement can be found in the book General Lattice Theory by George Grätzer
Distributive lattices are modular. The proof can be found here for example (it's the first example).