Adversity

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's…

As for happiness... I don't think you can give that to anyone, if they don't have it in them. However, it's certainly possible to give un-happiness.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?