Musar su Ezechiele 21:31

כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הָסִיר֙ הַמִּצְנֶ֔פֶת וְהָרִ֖ים הָֽעֲטָרָ֑ה זֹ֣את לֹא־זֹ֔את הַשָּׁפָ֣לָה הַגְבֵּ֔הַ וְהַגָּבֹ֖הַ הַשְׁפִּֽיל׃

così dice il Signore Dio: la mitra sarà tolta e la corona tolta; questo non sarà più lo stesso: ciò che è basso sarà esaltato e ciò che è alto abbattuto.

Mesilat Yesharim

And corresponding to this they said (Yalkut Shimoni Yechezkel 361): "'[So said the L-rd G-d:] I shall remove the turban and lift off the crown [the humble will be uplifted, and the high will be humbled]' (Yechezkel 21:31) - whoever is great in this world will be small in the World to Come". We also learn the opposite: if one is small in this world, his time of greatness will be in the World to Come.
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Mesilat Yesharim

The detriments of this trait are abundance and satiation in the good of this world, similar to what scripture states explicitly: "lest when you have eaten and become sated [and built good houses...] and your heart grows haughty..." (Devarim 8:12-14).
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Mesilat Yesharim

Therefore the pious deemed it good for a man to afflict himself sometimes, in order to put down the evil inclination of arrogance, which grows strong only through abundance, similar to what our sages, of blessed memory, said: "a lion does not roar over a basket of straw but over a basket of meat" (Berachot 32a).
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