小忠，大忠之賊也；小利，大利之殘也。
The reason a garden has no groves with towering trees is that it is too small.
Petty loyalty is the assassin of great loyalty.
自請絕易，請人絕難。
Petty advantage is the destroyer of great advantage.
To seek one’s own death is easy; to ask another to seek death is difficult.
水激則悍，矢激則遠，141人激於名，不毀為聲。
When water flows rapidly, it is fiercely destructive; when arrows fly fast, they go far.
下士得官以死，上士得官以生。
Men are powerfully stirred by fame; yet they may be destroyed by it.
Vulgar men-of-service gain position and in consequence die; superior men-of-service gain position and in consequence live.
禍福非從地中出，非從天上來，己自生之。
Disaster and good fortune do not emerge from earth, nor do they arise from heaven; we ourselves make them arise.
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