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    "num": 58,
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    "title": "Chapter 58 — Cycling of Fortune",
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    "text": "## Chapter 58\n\n\nThe government that seems the most unwise,\nOft goodness to the people best supplies;\nThat which is meddling, touching everything,\nWill work but ill, and disappointment bring.\n\nMisery!--happiness is to be found by its side! Happiness!--misery\nlurks beneath it! Who knows what either will come to in the end?\n\nShall we then dispense with correction? The (method of) correction\nshall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn\nbecome evil. The delusion of the people (on this point) has indeed\nsubsisted for a long time.\n\nTherefore the sage is (like) a square which cuts no one (with its\nangles); (like) a corner which injures no one (with its sharpness).\nHe is straightforward, but allows himself no license; he is bright,\nbut does not dazzle.",
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