If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
XUNZIWhen you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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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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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?
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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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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Thus, 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.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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