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    "title": "Chapter 72 — When People Lose Fear of Power",
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    "text": "## Chapter 72\n\n\nWhen the people do not fear what they ought to fear, that which\nis their great dread will come on them.\n\nLet them not thoughtlessly indulge themselves in their ordinary\nlife; let them not act as if weary of what that life depends on.\n\nIt is by avoiding such indulgence that such weariness does not\narise.\n\nTherefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not\nparade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value\non, himself. And thus he puts the latter alternative away and makes\nchoice of the former.",
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