Inherent Law of Moral Retribution
huò祸1
fú福2
wú无3
mén门4
，
wéi唯5
rén人6
zì自7
zhào召8
；
shàn善9
è恶10
zhī之11
bào报12
，
rú如13
yǐng影14
suí随15
xíng形16
，
qí其17
lǐ理18
zài在19
yān焉20
Misfortune and fortune have no fixed doors—people invite them upon themselves; retribution follows good and evil like a shadow, and the principle resides right here.
1. misfortune, disaster
2. fortune, blessing
3. to have no, without
4. door, fixed path
5. only, solely
6. person, human
7. self, by oneself
8. to summon, to invite
9. good, virtue
10. evil, vice
11. possessive particle [linking subject to nominalized noun]
12. retribution, recompense
13. like, as if
14. shadow
15. to follow, to accompany
16. body, form
17. its, this [possessive pronoun]
18. principle, law, truth
19. to reside in, to consist in
20. in this, herein [fused preposition-pronoun 於之]