“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.”

“The people starve because those in authority over them devour too many taxes; that is why they starve.”

“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves;”

“from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority.”

“The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.”

“he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.”

“Therefore the sage desires what (other men) do not desire, and does not prize things difficult to get; he learns what (other men) do not learn, and turns back to what the multitude of men have passed by.”