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"When the ruler is dull and incompetent, the people are pure and simple. When the ruler is sharp and alert, the people are a bad lot. "Bad luck: good luck depends on it good luck: bad luck hides in it." Who knows where this ends? There is no norm. What accords with the norm turns around and becomes weird what is excellent turns around and becomes ominous. "People's blindness - it has been going on so long now." And so the Wise Person: Is square and honest but does not cut is pointed and exact but does not hurt is straight and direct but not tactless shines but does not dazzle."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 9