Xunzi's famous sayings are as follows:

First, those who know themselves don't complain, while those who know know life don't complain. -"Xunzi's Honor and Disgrace"

Comments: People who are self-aware will reflect on themselves when they encounter problems and will not complain about others; People who can control their own destiny will only be proactive and will not complain about heaven.

at the age of two or three, it is not difficult to be ignorant of a gentleman. -

Comments on Xunzi: If you don't experience the cold winter, you don't know the tenacity and straightness of the pine and cypress; You don't know the ambition of a gentleman until you have experienced a crisis.

third, the sky is always there, not for Yao's survival or for Jie's death. It is good to treat it with governance, and it is fierce to treat it with chaos. -

Comments on Xunzi's Theory of Heaven: The universe and the heavens and the earth have their natural operating rules, which are permanent and will not be changed by human will. They will neither exist because of a benevolent monarch like Yao nor disappear because of a cruel monarch like Xia Jie. Governing the country according to the laws of nature will bring good luck; If you go against the laws of nature, it will bring disaster.

fourth, in the bitter fleabane bitter fleabane, do not help but go straight; White sand is in nirvana, and it is black with it. -

Comments on Xunzi's Persuasion of Learning: Pengcao grows in hemp fields and can stand upright without helping it; Put the white sand in the black soil, and the white sand will become black. These two examples show that the environment has a great influence on a person, which is why the story of Meng Mu's Three Movements came into being.

Xunzi's ideas

Xunzi criticized all schools, but praised Confucius' thoughts as the best idea of governing the country. Xunzi claimed to be the heir of Confucius, and especially inherited Confucius's "foreign Wang Xue".

From the standpoint of epistemology, he critically summarized and absorbed hundred schools of thought's theoretical ideas, and formed a distinctive view of nature, morality and social history, and on this basis, he summarized the pre-Qin philosophy.