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比干剖心；
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荀子 · 堯問篇第三十二比干剖心為帝王。天地不知，善桀、紂，殺賢良。比干剖心，孔子拘匡；接輿辟世，箕子佯狂；田常為亂，闔閭擅強。
莊子 · 盜跖第二十九比干剖心者，莫若王子比干、伍子胥。子胥沈江，比干剖心，此二子者，世謂忠臣也，然卒為天下笑。自上觀之，至于子胥、比干，皆不足貴也。
莊子 · 盜跖第二十九比干剖心比干剖心，子胥抉眼，忠之禍也；直躬證父，尾生溺死，信之患也；鮑子立乾，申子自埋，廉之害也；孔
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR3c0005_003.txt, lines 112–120. HF 03.02:05; jiaoshi 302; jishi 49; jiaozhu 25; shiping 241
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