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" Human nature is what Heaven supplies. "

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" I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted. "

" When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. "

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" I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study. "

" The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power. "

" Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. "

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

" 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. "

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" If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. "

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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. "

" When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. "

" A person is born with a liking for profit. "

" The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. "

" The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. "

" Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words. "