Xun Kuang

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

Xun Kuang

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Xun Kuang

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

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

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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.

Xun Kuang

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.

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

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

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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.

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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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