“Someone who is too insistent in his own views finds few to agree with him.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”

“he who asserts his own views is not distinguished;”

“he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;”

“Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.”

“And when (one with the highest excellence) does not wrangle (about his low position), no one finds fault with him.”

“Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.”