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"If the common people are really not afraid of dying How can one frighten them by threatening to kill them? But if the people are really afraid of dying And know that we will arrest and kill those who do perverse things, Who among them would dare to do them? If the people are really afraid of dying Then there will always be an executioner. To stand in for the executioner in killing people Is to stand in for the master carpenter in cutting his lumber. Of those who would thus stand in for the master carpenter, Few get away without injuring their own hands."