Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . They do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.