We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
58. Results of Process When the government is relaxed, people are happy. When the government is strict, people are anxious. Good fortune leans on bad fortune; bad fortune hides behind good fortune. Who knows the results of process? Is there no justice? When the just become unjust, goodness becomes evil. People have been deluded for a long time. Therefore the wise are square but not cornered, sharp but not cutting, straight but not strained, brilliant but not dazzling. -- tr. S. Beck