Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

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• Xun Kuang:

  Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations,

• Xun Kuang:

  Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be or

• Xun Kuang:

  When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and mor

• Xun Kuang:

  In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not

• Xun Kuang:

  Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

• Xun Kuang:

  Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to wa

• Xun Kuang:

  Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

• Xun Kuang:

  Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of

• Xun Kuang:

  If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to.

• Xun Kuang:

  I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is wh