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2. Abandon your benevolence; put away your justice; and the people will return to filial piety and paternal devotion.
3. Abandon smartness; give up greed; and thieves and robbers will no longer exist.
4. These are three things for which culture is insufficient. Therefore it is said:
"Hold fast to that which will endure,
Show thyself simple, preserve thee pure,
And lessen self with desires fewer."