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LXXV. Loss By Greediness
LXXV. Loss By Greediness
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LXXV. Loss By Greediness

LXXV

LOSS BY GREEDINESS

Starvation of a people comes when an official appropriates to himself too much of the taxes. The reason a people are difficult to govern is because the officials are too meddlesome; the people make light of death because they are so absorbed in life's interests. The one who is not absorbed in life is more moral than he who esteems life.

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