Adaptation to change

"Whose government is unostentatious, quite unostentatious, his people will be prosperous, quite prosperous. Whose government is prying, quite prying, his people will be needy, quite needy. Misery, alas! rests upon happiness. Happiness, alas! underlies misery. But who foresees the catastrophe? It will not be prevented! What is ordinary becomes again extraordinary. What is good becomes again unpropitions. This bewilders people, which happens constantly since times immemorial. Therefore the holy man is square but not sharp, strict but not obnoxious, upright but not restraining, bright but not dazzling."