If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
XUNZIIf knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
XUNZIThus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
XUNZIIf 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.
XUNZIA person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
XUNZIMusic is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
XUNZIThe rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
XUNZIHuman nature is what Heaven supplies.
XUNZIMen of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.
XUNZIThe person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
XUNZIWhen you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
XUNZIThey are done merely for ornament. … the common people regard them as supernatural.
XUNZIMencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
XUNZIThe nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.
XUNZIIf the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
XUNZIHuman 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.
XUNZIHuman nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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