"People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere……" — Laozi
"People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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