Greatness

Judging oneself great or small, in terms of created and perishable things, is a great mistake, an absurdity.

To consider oneself small and others great, is greatness. To treat himself as great and others as small, is truly lowliness.

A man is really great, if he makes others great. While he who makes others small, he himself is small, a slave.

By wealth, lands, houses etc., material things, if one considers himself as great, it is a perversion of intellect.

By taking into account worldly goods, if man treats himself as great, he is made small, by such goods.

We were great earlier, then we created wealth and we treated ourselves as great, because of the wealth. This means that in fact, wealth is bigger than us. Riches get more respect and we ourselves are disgraced.