Men Quotes by Xunzi

Xunzi

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Kings

Men

Nature

Xunzi

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Evil

Goodness

Men

Xunzi

Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

Justice

Men

Passion

Xunzi

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Excess

Men

Pride

Xunzi

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

Men

Noble

Use

Xunzi

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Animal

Believe

Men

Xunzi

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Men

Scholar

Successful

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Isaac Deutscher

Gilbert Tennent

Elias Lyman Magoon

Clifton Fadiman

Wilhelm II

Agriculture

Animal

Believe

Blood

Broken

Causes

Criminals

Desire

Done

Ease

Emotional

Evil

Excess

Feelings

Fluency

Foresight

Giving

Goodness

Heard

Heart

Heaven

Honor

Human Nature

Humility

Humor

Inspiring

Intelligent

Justice

Kings

Knowing

Leadership

Longing

Men

Mind

Nature

Noble

Order

Ornaments

Passion

People

Power

Practice

Pride

Principles

Promise

Reflection

Sacrifice

Scholar

Sincerity

States

Strong

Stupid

Successful

Teacher

Tired

Tongue

Two

Use

Wish

Years

Men Quotes by Xunzi

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men’s nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

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Men Quotes by

Isaac Deutscher

Gilbert Tennent

Elias Lyman Magoon

Clifton Fadiman

Wilhelm II

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