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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

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Goodness

Human Nature

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Ease

Foresight

Sincerity

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Blood

Humor

Strong

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

Fluency

Mind

Tongue

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?

Desire

Heart

Order

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.

Two

Wish

Years

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Kings

Men

Nature

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Evil

Goodness

Men

Men 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.

Justice

Men

Passion

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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Stupid

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Quotes by Xunzi

Xunzi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

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

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?

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.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Men 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.

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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