Tao Te Ching

“If you climb to a height and beckon, it’s not that your arm grows longer, but it's seen from farther away. If you yell downwind it’s not that the sound gets swifter, but it is heard more clearly.”

— Xun Kuang 荀況 310 – 235 BCE via Denma Translation Group
(Xún Kuàng, Xúnzǐ)
Early Confucian philosopher of "basic badness"