Quote by Xun Zi
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot stu

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

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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 peoples emotional nature. – 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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power
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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. – Xun Zi

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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. – Arthur Keith

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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. – Samuel Adams

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead

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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. – Margaret Cavendish

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