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Legalism -> Shang Jun Shu -> Interdicts and Encouragements -> 4

So with the organization in a well-governed state, people cannot escape punishment any more than the eyes can hide from the mind what they see.
But in the disorderly states of the present time, it is not thus:
reliance is placed on a multitude of offices and a host of civil servants,
but however numerous the civil servants may be,
their affairs are the same and they belong to one body.
Now, those whose affairs are the same and who belong to one body, cannot control one another.
But by making their interests different and their disadvantages dissimilar, the early kings created guarantees.


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