When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
XunziA 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.
XunziIn antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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