Tao Te Ching - Chapter 58 & 60

Chapter 58

If a country is governed with tolerance,
the people are comfortable and honest.
If a country is governed with repression,
the people are depressed and crafty.

When the will to power is in charge,
the higher the ideals, the lower the results.
Try to make people happy,
and you lay the groundwork for misery.
Try to make people moral,
and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Thus the Master is content
to serve as an example
and not to impose her will.
She is pointed, but doesn't pierce.
Straightforward, but supple.
Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

Chapter 60

Governing a large country
is like frying a small fish.
You spoil it with too much poking.

Center your thoughts in the Tao
and evil will have no power.
Not that is isn't there,
but you'll be able to step out of its way.

Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself,

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