But Chou knows himself and his circumstances well. "I can't not live a simple life," he says. After all, you could become an emperor and still "suffer from the failure to be content with your lot in life."
周公很清楚自己的性格及處境，「不淡泊明志也不行」，即使如漢武帝貴為天子，還是有「人，苦於不知足！」