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"The best government, the people know it is just there. The next best, they love and praise it. The next, they fear it. The next, they revile against it. When you don't trust (hsin) [the people] enough, Then they are untrustworthy (pu hsin). Quiet, why value words (yen)? Work is accomplished, things are done. People all say that I am natural (tzu-jan)."