Basic Information Chinese Idiom: 患得患失Pinyin: huàn dé huàn shīLiteral Meaning: Worry about both gaining and losing something.Figurative Meaning: Before obtaining something, one frets about failing to get it; once possessed, one lives in constant fear of losing it. It describes people who obsessively fixate on personal gains and losses, trapped in endless anxiety over…
Han Feizi tells Zeng Congzi offered to assassinate the King of Wu for gain. The Lord of Wei saw his motive and drove him away.
4.16 The Master said, “A gentleman takes as much trouble to discover what is right as lesser men take to discover what will pay.”