If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom,
it would be better for the people a hundredfold.
If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness,
the people would again become filial and kindly.
If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain,
there would be no thieves nor robbers.
Those three methods (of government)
Thought olden ways in elegance did fail
And made these names their want of worth to veil;
But simple views, and courses plain and true
Would selfish ends and many lusts eschew.
Nine-tenths. That the vast majority. "Zhuangzi's Fables": "Fable 19, re-made 17, Zhi made the sunrise, and Ni in days." Han Yu "Ping Huaixi inscription": "Where Death 35000 Cai, its not music for the soldiers willing to return for the farmers were 19, noted the vertical. "Cao Qinghua" fly set Recalling that time, things defeats lightly clothed in fine watch! ":" So 'rustic' wear, coupled with mouthful of earth cavity, or even ask for, 19 have been looked down upon. "