Posted by sigismund on October 9, 2013, at 21:27:17
In reply to Re: delusions of kindness, posted by sigismund on October 9, 2013, at 21:11:39
The translations can be quite different.
"Welcome disgrace as a pleasant surprise.
Prize calamities as your own body."Why should we "welcome disgrace as a pleasant
surprise"?
Because a lowly state is a boon:
Getting it is a pleasant surprise,
And so is losing it!
That is why we should "welcome disgrace as a pleasant
surprise."Why should we "prize calamities as our own body"?
Because our body is the very source of our calamities.
If we have no body, what calamities can we have?Hence, only he who is willing to give his body for the
sake of the world is fit to be entrusted with the world.
Only he who can do it with love is worthy of being the
steward of the world.
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