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Xunzi has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in…
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence…
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is…
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If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe…
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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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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural…
— Alfred Adler
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute…
— Pam Brown
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It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
— Deborah Bull
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes…
— Elias Canetti
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and…
— Giacomo Casanova
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
— Dante Alighieri
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut…
— Chanakya
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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