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"If the government is from the heart the people will be richer and richer. If the government is full of restrictions the people will be poorer and poorer. Miserable! you rely on coming happiness. Happy! you crouch under dread of coming misery. You may know the end from the beginning. If a ruler is in line with Inner Life his strategy will come right, his bad luck will become good, and the people will be astonished. Things have been so for a long time. That is why the self-controlled man is just and hurts no one, is true and takes no licence; he shines, and offends not by his brightness."