Rule the state with uprightness, Deploy your troops with craft, Gain all under heaven with noninterference. How do I know this is actually so? Now, The more taboos under heaven, the poorer the people; The more clever devices people have, the more confused the state and ruling house; The more knowledge people have, the more strange things spring up; The more legal affairs are given prominence, the more numerous bandits and thieves. For this reason, The sage has a saying: “I take no action, yet the people transform themselves; I am fond of stillness, yet the people correct themselves; I do not interfere in affairs, yet the people enrich themselves; I desire not to desire, yet the people of themselves become simple as unhewn logs.”