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Explore more quotes by Xun Zi
"If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?"
"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
"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."
"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."
"There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men."
"A 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."
"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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