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 Read Quote
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. Xun Kuang Read Quote
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. Xun Kuang Read Quote
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. Xun Kuang Read Quote
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. Xun Kuang Read Quote
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. Xun Kuang Read Quote
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted. Xun Kuang Read Quote
