” If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered. “
” The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its ‘necessary principles.’ “
” A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. “
” The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself, he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself. “
” The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies, they focused their intentions and unified their conduct. Everything they did was for the sake of being employed by the ruler. “
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