Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind). 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.
AI Ɖokpo
Xɔ́ sín ɖà gbɛ nɛ wá ɖò yɛ, ɖò xweví tɔn wu yɛ. Ká xɔ́ sín ɖà gbɛ nɛ wá ye? Xɔ́ ɖò vùtùn wu, kún nǔ wá xɔ́ yɛ nɛ, hwɛ nǔ wá hwɛ ɖò yɛ nɛ. Ká ɖò xweví tɔn wu wá ye? Yè ɖò xweví tɔn wu nɛ é, wà yè ɖò nukún tɔn wu nɛ. Ká yè hwɛ ɖò nukún tɔn wu nɛ wá ye? Nǔ wá ɖò yè, nǔ wá ɖò yè, ká yè ɖò xweví wu wà? Nǔ wá ɖò yè ɖò xweví wu wà nɛ, yè ɖò yè ɖò xweví wu wà nǔ wá sùn. Ká yè ɖò yè ɖò xweví wu wà nǔ wá sùn wá ye? Kún nǔ wá xɔ́ yè ɖò xweví wu wà, nǔ wá tú yè ɖò xweví wu wà; hwɛ nǔ wá xɔ́ yè ɖò xweví wu wà, nǔ wá tú yè ɖò xweví wu wà.
