If one rests on high rank, taking oneself seriously, being fastidious about minor tasks but slighting the great body of the community as a whole, not knowing who the wise are, not perceiving who are no good, not changing what is wrong, not following what is right, acting arbitrarily as one pleases, without any deference, this is the foundation of calamity. How could one not beware?
Should it actually turn out that there are none among one's associates worth consulting, it is crucial that another - of high rank - take the reigns and still take examples from superiors of the past - so as to avoid the calamity of those who aggrandize themselves....