Quote by Xun Zi
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must b

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. – Xun Zi

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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

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

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. – Honore de Balzac

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The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. – Werner Heisenberg

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