Han Fei

"The Law is Huge and Shapeless, its Moral is extends everywhere."

"No state is forever strong or forever weak. If those who uphold the law are strong, the state will be strong; if they are weak, the state will be weak."

"The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong."

"To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong."

"A truly enlightened ruler uses the law to select men for him; he does not choose them himself. He uses the law to weigh their merits; he does not attempt to judge them for himself."

"From your place of darkness observe the defects of others. See but do not appear to see; listen but do not seem to listen; know but do not let it be known that you know. When you perceive the trend of…"

"Be immeasurably great, be unfathomably deep; make certain that names and results tally, examine laws and customs, punish those who act willfully, and the state will be without traitors."

"The way of the ruler is to make certain that, if what a minister says beforehand does not tally with what he says later, or what he says later does not tally with what he has said previously, then alt…"