"It is better to go on foot
than ride in a carriage
under false pretenses.

it is better to go honorably on foot and do without than to ride in a carriage under false pretenses and thereby lose your honor. if you pretend abundance when in fact you are in need, those who would aid you will not, either by believing you to be abundant or by recognizing your pretense and considering you to be unworthy. furthermore, by pretending you have something when you do not, you diminish yourself in your own eyes and lose self-respect."

Take not gain or loss to heart.
what man holds high
comes to nothing.

you are not your gain neither are you your loss. Gain and loss are external to you, things with which your eternal soul is not concerned. All gains and losses pass away at the time of death. Do not waste even a moment on gains and losses when death is plucking your ears saying, "Live! I am coming."

~I Ching Wisdom Volume One by Wu Wei