If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are
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.