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Xun Zi Quotes & Sayings

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38 entries tagged including 6 subtopics.
Last updated Dec 2023

Xun Zi Topics

Humor
Human Nature
Intention
Devotion
Longing

QUOTES

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

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

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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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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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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

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

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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

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

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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

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Devotion quotes

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

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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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