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Rh 20. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content.
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21. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being;

nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

22. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.