Restoring Genuineness

"(If some men would but1) abandon their sageness (holiness), and cast away their wisdom, the people would be more benefited a hundredfold. If they would abandon their philanthropy, and cast away their justice, the people would go back to filial duty and fatherly compassion. If they would abandon their skill and forego their gains, thieves would have no existence. Here are three things, the cultivation of which has been a failure. Therefore let them return to whence they came; and do you appear in your own unadorned simplicity, embracing realities, curbing selfishness, and curtailing ambitious desire."