Xun Zi

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. ↗

— Xun Zi

#daring #fierce #guidance #impulse #instruction

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ↗

— Xun Zi

#devotion #feelings #longing #sacrifices

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animosity #character #mean #others #rouse

A person is born with a liking for profit. ↗

— Xun Zi

#liking #person #profit

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

— Xun Zi

#bad #being #controlled #corrected #kings

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ↗

— Xun Zi

#despise #determination #detestable #evil #good

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. ↗

— Xun Zi

#defer #die #each #follow #human

Human nature is what Heaven supplies. ↗

— Xun Zi

#human #human nature #nature #supplies

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ↗

— Xun Zi

#cannot #human #human nature #nature #people