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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
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Come Desirable Detestable Involve Man Reflect See Something Time
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
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Breath Danger Earth Place Step Transit
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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Acquire Become Correct Moral Must Taught Nature Orderly People Principle Since Teacher
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Achieve Human Nature People Refer Study Work
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Cause Goodness Human Intentional Moment Nature Study
Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.
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Evil Misery Misfortune Quarrel
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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Emotional Fantasy Fundamental Harmony Human Integrity Music Peacemaker REquired World
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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Activity Fluency Mind Moderate Punctilious Quickness Rest Sharp Tongue
The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.
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Artificial Good Man Nature
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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Born Each Other Human Inclination Nature Ove People Profit Snatch Struggle
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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Balance Blood Calm Harmony Humor Robust Strong
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
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Bound Broken Cause Pilable Right Themselves
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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Disagree Good Human Nature Mencius
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Day Entire Found Less Moment Once Study Think Valuable
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
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Look Millionfold One Thousand Today Two Understand Wish Year
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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Capable Conversely Gentlemen Love Petty Same

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