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Hsün Tzu (Xunzi)

Hsün Tzu (c. 312-230 BCE)

“The gentleman uses things; the petty man is used by things.”

  • From Hsün Tzu’s Basic Writings (chapter/section 2), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963, 1996).

 

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