Hanfeizi · 主道第五

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主道第五 · 2345 characters
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荀子 · 臣道篇第十三故明君之

所尊所厚也,而闇主惑之,以為己賊也。故明君之所賞,闇君之所罰也;闇君之所賞,明君之所殺也。

孟子 · 梁惠王上是故明君

是故明君制民之產,必使仰足以事父母,俯足以畜妻子,樂歲終身飽,凶年免於死亡;然後驅而之善,故

韓非子 · 二柄第七不得陳言

故明主之畜臣,臣不得越官而有功,不得陳言而不當。越官則死,不當則罪,守業其官,所言者貞也,則群臣不得朋黨相為矣。

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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
Contributors
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
Source position
KR3c0005_005.txt, lines 231–238. HF 05.03:04; jiaoshi 693; jishi 68; jiaozhu 38; shiping 274
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55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332
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