Sickness

Seventy-one

Diplomacy
 

Seventy-two

When the people do not respect those in power,
Then what they greatly fear, is about to arrive.

Do not narrow the size of the places in which they live;
Do not oppress them in their means of livelihood.
It is simply because you do not oppress them,
That they therefore will not be fed up. 

Therefore the sage knows himself
but does not show himself;
He cherishes himself but does not value himself.
For this reason he lets go of that and chooses this.

Fate

Seventy-three

If you are brave in being daring, You will be killed.
If you are brave in not being daring, you will preserve life.
With these two things, in one case there is profit,
In the other there is harm.

The things that Heaven hates - Who knows why?
The Tao of Heaven is not to fight
And yet to be good at winning -
Not to speak, and yet to respond with skills -
Not to summon it, yet to let it come on its own -
To be at ease and yet to plan with care.
the Even age is unsure of this. 

Tyranny

Seventy-four

If the people were constant in their behaviour
and yet did not fear to die,
How could you use execution to threaten them? 
If you brought it about that the people
were constant in their behaviour
en moreover feared to die,
And we took those who behaved in abnormal ways
and killed them -
Who would dare act in this way?

If the people are constant and moreover necessarily fear to die,
Then we constantly have one in charge of executions.
Now killing people in place of the one in charge of executions,
This is like cutting wood in place of the master carpenter.
And of those who cut wood in the place of the master carpenter, only few do not hurt their hands.

Corrected with the Mawangtui text