使我介然有知，行於大道，唯施是畏。大道甚夷，而人好径。朝甚除，田甚芜，仓甚虚；服文采，带利剑，厌饮食，财货有餘；是為盗夸。非道也哉！

Te Ching Chapter Fifty-three

If I were to have the very slight insight,

I would live in accordance with the Great Tao.

My only fear is, to go astray from Tao while spreading it.

Great Tao is smooth and plain, yet people prefer the devious bypaths.

Hence, the government is corrupted with luxury and splendor.

The people were exhausted with labor and left the fields to be wasted and the granaries depleted.

Under such practices, the officials would wear fine clothes,

Carry sharp swords and indulge themselves in good food and drinks.

They crave with greed to possess great wealth.

Such is said to commit the crime of robbery and certainly is not the Way of Tao.