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"“Favor and disgrace are cause for alarm.” “Value your gravest anxieties as you do your own person.” What does it mean in saying “Favor and disgrace are both cause for alarm?” It means that whenever favor is bestowed, both gaining it and losing it should be cause for alarm. What does it mean in saying “Value your gravest anxieties as you do your own person?” The reason we have grave anxieties is because we are embodied persons. If we were not such persons, what anxieties would we have? Thus those who value the care of their own persons more than running the world can be entrusted with the world. And those who begrudge their persons as though they were the world can be put in charge of the world."