Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. (Xun Zi)
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. (Xun Zi)
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? (Xun Zi)
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. (Xun Zi)
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. (Xun Zi)
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. (Xun Zi)
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. (Xun Zi)
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. (Xun Zi)
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)
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. (Xun Zi)
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. (Xun Zi)
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. (Xun Zi)