In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

-- Xunzi 荀子

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。

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Tendencies Lawlessness Corrected

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Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

人的本性是不能根据当时流行的趋势作出预测的。它服从于伟大的艺术家、导演、作家、音乐家、演员的惊人创造力，他们知道如何触动世界各地人们的心弦。

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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。

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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.

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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