The Practice of Government

"Tau is ever inactive; and yet leaves nothing undone. If a prince or a king could keep it, all things would be, of their own accord, transformed (to his likeness). If during the process of transformation, there should be any manifestation of desire, I would restrain it by the nameless Simplicity. The nameless Simplicity would also produce an absence of all desire, which would again result in quietude; and the world would rectify itself."