Returning to simplicity

"Abandon your saintliness; put away your prudence; and the people will gain a hundred-fold! Abandon your benevolence; put away your justice; and the people will return to filial devotion and paternal love! Abandon your scheming; put away your gains; and thieves and robbers will no longer exist. These are the three things for which we deem cul-. ture insufficient. Therefore it is said : Hold fast to that which will endure, Show thyself simple, preserve thee pure, Thy own keep small, thy desires poor."