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四曰不務聽治而好五音，
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四曰不務聽治而好五音，Keep different negatives apart ↗四曰不務聽治而好五音，Read the relationship between clauses ↗六曰耽於女樂，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 曰 × 3 則 × 3 之 × 3 也 × 3 國 × 3 不 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 彊國篇第十六亡國之禍亡國至亡而後知亡，至死而後知死，亡國之禍敗不可勝悔也。霸者之善箸焉，可以時記也，王者之功名不可勝數，可以日志也。
韓非子 · 十過第十不務聽治故曰：不務聽治，而好五音不已，則窮身之事也。
韓非子 · 十過第十則滅國殺國分為三，為天下笑。故曰：貪愎好利，則滅國殺身之本也。
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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
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_010.txt, lines 26–33. HF 10.01:02; jiaoshi 654; jishi 164; jiaozhu 80; shiping 368
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