 The natural disposition [qing 情] of people is that for food they want meats, for clothes they want embroidered garments, for travel they want chariots and horses, and moreover they want the riches of surplus wealth and accumulated goods. Even if provided these things, to the end of their years they would never be satisfied; this is also the natural disposition [qing 情] of people. (Xunzi, 4.11; Hutton 2014: 29)