“Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people. The Tao in its regular course does nothing for the sake of doing it, and so there is nothing which it does not do. If princes and kings were able to maintain it, all things would of themselves be transformed by them. If this transformation became to me an object of desire, I would express the desire by the nameless simplicity.”
- Tao Te Ching — Chapter 26 (James Legge)