The Love of Self

"When people do not stand in awe of present dangers, they run into greater ones. They should beware of finding their house too narrow, and despising their condition of life. If they do not despise it, it will not despise them. This is why the sage, while he knows himself, does not show himself off; and while he loves himself, does not rate himself high. He puts aside the one thing, that he may attend to the other."