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Of the greatest leader the people barely know that such a one exists;
The next they draw near to and praise;
The next they shrink from, intimidated; but revile.
Truly, ‘It is by not believing the people that you turn them into liars’.
But from the sage it is so hard at any price to get a single word
That when his task is accomplished, his work done,
Throughout the country everyone says ’ It happened of its own accord’.
17th verse of the Tao Te Ching