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This reads as a principled explanation for stepping aside before status turns into burden. It can be taken to mean that dignity mattered more here than clinging to a place after the balance had shifted, and that the speaker did not want reputation to be overshadowed by decline. It lands in any career where timing your exit is part of respect.
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Originally said in English.
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