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田常徒用德而簡公弒，
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田常徒用德而簡公弒，Read the relationship between clauses ↗故今世為人臣者兼刑德而用之，Follow an explicit inference ↗故今世為人臣者兼刑德而用之，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗故今世為人臣者兼刑德而用之，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗則是世主之危甚於簡公、宋君也。Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則是世主之危甚於簡公、宋君也。Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 用 × 3 而 × 3 徒 × 2 德 × 2 簡 × 2 公 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孟子 · 告子下為人臣者為人臣者懷利以事其君，為人子者懷利以事其父，為人弟者懷利以事其兄，是君臣、父子、兄弟終去仁義
孟子 · 告子下為人臣者為人臣者懷仁義以事其君，為人子者懷仁義以事其父，為人弟者懷仁義以事其兄，
荀子 · 彊國篇第十六為人臣者而引其足也；說必不行矣，俞務而俞遠。為人臣者不恤己行之不行，苟富利而已矣，是渠衝入穴而求利也，是仁人之所羞而不為也。
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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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- KR3c0005_007.txt, lines 89–96. HF 07.01:09; jiaoshi 179; jishi 111; jiaozhu 53; shiping 308
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