Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.
The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.
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