13.
厭
恥
Loathing shame
Vinh, nhục cũng làm lo âu.
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared;
Sở dĩ hoạn nạn là vì có thân.
honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).
Tại sao vinh, nhục đều làm lo âu?
What is meant by speaking thus of favour and disgrace?
Vinh là ở ngôi cao, nhục là ở địa vị thấp.
Disgrace is being in a low position (after the enjoyment of favour).
Được cũng lo, mất cũng lo.
The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity)
Vì thế nên nói: Vinh nhục đều lo.
this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.
Tại sao nói: «Hoạn nạn là vì có thân?»
And what is meant by saying that honour and great calamity are to be (similarly) regarded as personal conditions?
Ta sở dĩ phải lo âu nhiều, chính vì ta có thân.
What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself);
Nếu không có thân, ta đâu có lo !
if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?
Cho nên ai quí thiên hạ hơn thân mình, thì có thể đem thiên hạ giao phó cho,
Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it,
ai yêu thiên hạ hơn thân mình, thì có thể gửi gắm thiên hạ cho họ được.
and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.