Sam Bowne's CNIT 131 HW 7a Example

Rulers

The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects;
The next best are loved and praised;
The next are feared;
The next despised: they have no faith in their people, and their people become unfaithful to them.

When the best rulers achieve their purpose, their subjects claim the achievement as their own.

Here are three treasures that I cherish and commend to you:
The first is compassion by which one finds courage.	The second is restraint by which one finds strength.	And the third is unimportance by which one finds influence.

From the Tao Te Ching .

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