Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

由于人的本性是坏的,要想改正,就必须接受老师的教导,要有秩序,就必须掌握礼仪和道德准则。

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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 not controlled.

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。

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。