The central idea of this passage is life will never be fair, but you have to make the best of what you got, and you can not complain. The quote is relating back to the central idea in some ways. The quote itself is saying when leaders try to "cheat" fairness it will not work out for them. " it is a leaders obligation to do the right thing, regardless of whether or not it's perceived as the fair thing". That is another quote that supports the first quote and helps explain it more. The first quote replayed back to the central ideas because its saying how people are trying to make things fair when in reality nothing will be . Also that they can not just take shortcuts or anything trying to get fairness or look like fairness when its really not