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法不阿貴，繩不撓曲
Standards do not bend toward the powerful, just as a marking cord does not yield to crookedness.
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故以法治國，
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A standard is presented as holding its line despite the object to which it is applied.
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Argument contrastConsistent standards and the response of subjectsHanfeizi’s measuring-cord analogy stresses the impartial line of a standard. The Analects contrasts the effects of punishments with virtue and ritual. These are different claims about government: consistency of application and the quality of the response it produces.
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Keep different negatives apart不患人之不己知Edition, source, and reuse
- 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.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_006.txt, lines 388–394. HF 06.05:06; jiaoshi 261; jishi 88; jiaozhu 49; shiping 300
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