Simplicity in habits

"Where great sages are [in power], the subjects do not notice their existence. Where there are lesser sages, the people are attached to them ; they praise them. Where still lesser ones are, the people fear them ; and where still lesser ones are, the people despise them. For it is said: "If your faith be insufficient, verily, you will receive no faith." How reluctantly sages consider their words! Merit they accomplish ; deeds they perform ; and the hundred families think: "We are independent; we are free.""