Chapter 44 — Setting up a warning立戒
1Which is closer, name or body
名與身孰親？
Which is closer, your name or your body?
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尚名好高，其身必疏。
Hold your name high and love high places, and your body is surely left far off.
名遂則身退也。
When the name is made, the body withdraws.
2Which is more, body or goods
身與貨孰多？
Which is more, your body or your goods?
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貪貨無厭，其身必少。
Covet goods and never know when you have had enough, and your body is surely made less.
財多則害身也。
When goods are many, they harm the body.
3Which is the sickness, gain or loss
得與亡孰病？
Which is the sickness, gaining or losing?
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得多利而亡其身，何者為病也。
If you gain much profit and lose your body, which of them is the sickness?
好得利則病於行也。
To love gaining profit becomes a sickness in one's conduct.
4Love too much and you will spend greatly
是故甚愛必大費，多藏必厚亡，
So if you love too much, you will surely spend greatly. If you store up much, you will surely lose heavily.
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甚愛不與物通，多藏不與物散，求之者多，攻之者眾，為物所病，故大費厚亡也。
If you love too much, you do not pass through to things; if you store up much, you do not share with things. Then many come seeking and many come striking, and you become a sickness to things. So you spend greatly and lose heavily.
甚愛色，費精神。甚愛財，遇禍患。所愛者少，所亡者多，故言大費。
If you love women's beauty too much, you spend your spirit; if you love goods too much, you meet disaster and grief. What you hold dear is little and what you lose is much, and so it says that you spend greatly.
生多藏於府庫，死多藏於丘墓。生有攻劫之憂，死有掘塚探柩之患。
While alive, one stores up much in the storehouse; once dead, one stores up much in the grave. While alive there is the worry of being struck and robbed; once dead there is the worry of the grave being dug open and the coffin ransacked.
5Know what is enough and you will not be disgraced
知足不辱，知止不殆，可以長久。
Know what is enough and you will not be disgraced. Know when to stop and you will not be in danger. So you can last long.
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知足之人絕利去欲，不辱於身。
One who knows what is enough cuts off profit and casts away desire, and so does not bring disgrace upon the body.
知可止，則財利不累於身，聲色不亂於耳目，則身不危殆也。
If you know the place to stop, goods and profit do not bind the body and sounds and colors do not trouble the ears and eyes, so the body is not in danger.
人能知止足則福祿在己，治身者，神不勞；治國者，民不擾，故可長久。
When a person knows when to stop and what is enough, blessing and emolument rest with them. One who governs the body does not wear out the spirit, and one who governs the state does not make the people clamorous, and so one can last long.