The Old Philosopher's Canon of Reason and Virtue: 13. Loathing Shame

1. "Favor bodes disgrace; it is like trembling. Rank bodes great heartache. It is like the body." p. 81 2. What means "Favor bodes disgrace; it is like trembling?" Favor humiliates. Its acquisition causes trembling, its loss causes trembling. This is meant by "Favor bodes disgrace; it is like trembling." 3. What means "Rank bodes great heartache, it is like the body?" I suffer great heartache because I have a body. When I have no body, what heartache remains? 4. Therefore who administers the empire as he takes care of his body can be entrusted with the empire.