We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
13. Status Favor is as disgraceful as a warning. Nobility is as great a trouble as a self. Why say 'favor is as disgracful as a warning'? The favored is deemed below. Receiving it is like a warning. Losing it is like a warning. This is called 'favor is as disgracful as a warning.' Why say 'nobility is as great a trouble as a self'? Deeming I have a self is what makes it possible for me have trouble. and if I had no self, what trouble could I have? Hence nobility is regarding your self as the social world. To the likes of that, the social world can be delivered. [Nobility's] love regards the self as the social world. To the likes of that, the social world can be entrusted. -- tr. C. Hansen