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    "num": 3,
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    "title": "Chapter 3 — Keeping the People at Rest",
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    "text": "## Chapter 3\n\n\nNot to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to\nkeep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles\nwhich are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming\nthieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is\nthe way to keep their minds from disorder.\n\nTherefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties\ntheir minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens\ntheir bones.\n\nHe constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without\ndesire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them\nfrom presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from\naction, good order is universal.",
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