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

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

当人们缺少教师时,他们的倾向得不到纠正;当他们没有仪式和道德准则时,他们的无法无天是无法控制的。

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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.

在古代,圣人国王认识到人的本性是坏的,他们的倾向没有得到纠正,他们的不法行为受到控制。

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

我没有反社会倾向!