The witness of greed

"Were I discovered by men, and charged with government, my first would be lest I should become proud. The true Path is level and smooth; but men love by-paths. They adorn their courts, but they neglect their fields, and leave their storehouses empty. They wear elaborate and embroidered robes; they gird themselves with sharp swords; they eat and drink with luxury; they heap up goods; they are thievish and vainglorious. All this is opposite to the Way of Tao."