Xunzi on perseverance
Xunzi (c. 310–c. 235 BCE) approaches perseverance within Confucianism. Human tendencies are unruly without cultivation; ritual, teachers, and institutions transform them into moral order. Systematically, the teaching links ritual, human nature, education into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets perseverance most directly—useful for searches such as “xunzi quotes on perseverance.”
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What did Xunzi say about perseverance?
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