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    "title": "Chapter 13 — Favor and Disgrace",
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    "text": "## Chapter 13\n\n\nFavour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and\ngreat calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same\nkind).\n\nWhat is meant by speaking thus of favour and disgrace? Disgrace is\nbeing in a low position (after the enjoyment of favour). The getting\nthat (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing\nit leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):--this is what is\nmeant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be\nfeared.\n\nAnd what is meant by saying that honour and great calamity are to be\n(similarly) regarded as personal conditions? What makes me liable to\ngreat calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had\nnot the body, what great calamity could come to me?\n\nTherefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he\nhonours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would\nadminister it with the love which he bears to his own person may be\nentrusted with it.",
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