When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.
Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?
Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.
Battles are followed by years of famine.