Cantemplate Yourself

As a people through life, some learn to age gracefully and accumulate wisdom born from experience. They realses that to crave is to be subjected to more suffering, and the cure for sufering lies not in appealing to the gods for help but by finding salvation within themselves.
However, the person with a worldly nature suffers so much sorrow and affliction. In his youth, he tires to fill his days with enjoyment. But before he knows it, the years have passed and he has grown old. He is distressed to find that while his body has become unfit as an instrument for pleasure, his hear is still youthful in its craving. These are the people whose craving grows with their age: the older they grow, the stronger their craving becomes. This being the case, their suffering will correspondingly be greater.
One reason for failing to control craving is the pride in man. Under the false sense of pride, people go about committing evil deeds and refuse to recognise the obvious. By the same token, we should avoid maintaining pride in youth while still young, pride in health while still healthy, and pride in life while still living a good life.
Some people, without considering their real positions, think that they are higher than all others. They are so full of themselves that they develop a grandiose opinion of themselves. This can be dangerous because "Pride always goes before a fall"