Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.