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Quote by Xun Zi
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. – Xun Zi

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

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

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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of ones inner power. – Xun Zi

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Natures mandates. – Marquis de Sade

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One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. – Thor Heyerdahl

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each others folly – that is the first law of nature. – Voltaire

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