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1. "Favor bodes disgrace; it is like trembling.
Rank bodes great heartache. It is like the body."
2. What means "Favor bodes disgrace; it is like trembling?"
Favor humiliates. Its acquisition causes trembling, its loss causes trembling. This is meant by "Favor bodes disgrace; it is like trembling."
3. What means "Rank bodes great heartache, it is like the body?"
I suffer great heartache because I have a body. When I have no body, what heartache remains?
4. Therefore who administers the empire as he takes care of his body can be entrusted with the empire.