While defining the differences between perverse and virtuous people, Hsun-Tzu reminds his reader continuously in his writings with the emphasis that it is possible for people to be perfected through study and the guidance of a teacher. ... Throughout Hsun-Tzu's Basic Writings, he separates people as either a gentleman, he who is virtuous, or as the petty man, he who is perverse. ... He also defines a person that lacks goodness as lazy, without modesty, and with a great attention to food and drink. ...

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