(一味追求智巧)对上而言遮蔽了日月的光辉,对下而言消蚀了山川的精华,对中间而言毁坏了四时的交替,就连地上的爬虫,空中的飞蛾,都会失去它们的本性。
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.