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“In Chou," replied Wên Tzu, “we have a proverb:“Search not the ocean-depths for fish: calamity comeson those who pry into hidden mysteries." If you want tobe quit of robbers, the best thing your Highness can dois to promote the worthy to office. Let them instruct andenlighten their sovereign on the one hand, and reformthe masses below them on the other. If once the peopleacquire a sense of shame, you will not find them turninginto robbers."The Marquis then appointed Sui Hui to be PrimeMinister, and all the robbers fled to the Ch'in State.notes[1] A commentator says: “Using the gift of intuition to expose crime only exciteshatred in the wicked."DetailDUKE MU of Ch'in said to [the famous judge ofhorses] Po Lo:“You are now advanced in years. Is there any member ofyour family whom I could employ to look for horses inyour stead?"Po Lo replied: “A good horse can be picked out by itsgeneral build and appearance. But the superlative horse—one that raises no dust and leaves no tracks—is somethingevanescent and fleeting, elusive as thin air. The talent of