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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
Xunzi
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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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.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Misery is evil quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.
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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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The noble person uses things the lesser man is used by things.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
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You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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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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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.
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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.
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