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Xun Kuang Quotes
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- Farther
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Liking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is born with a liking for profit.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
- Ease
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- Nov 07, 2020
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Petty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Corrected
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020