Hanfeizi · 姦劫弒臣第十四
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51 Han characters · 28 distinct forms · 6 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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從是觀之，
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固有使人不得不愛我之道，Notice a change in argument structure ↗固有使人不得不愛我之道，Keep different negatives apart ↗而不恃人之以愛為我也。Read the relationship between clauses ↗而不恃人之以愛為我也。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗而不恃人之以愛為我也。Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 5 不 × 5 人 × 4 愛 × 3 我 × 3 恃 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孫子 · 九地篇使人不得，革其謀，使人無識；易其居，迂其途，使人不得慮。
荀子 · 性惡篇第二十三則聖人之然則聖人之於禮義積偽也，亦猶陶埏而生之也。用此觀之，然則禮義積偽者，豈人之性也哉？
莊子 · 胠篋第十則聖人之人之道不行；天下之善人少而不善人多，則聖人之利天下也少而害天下也多。
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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_014.txt, lines 206–213. HF 14.04:01; jiaoshi 216; jishi 247; jiaozhu 130; shiping 478
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55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332- Reuse
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- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
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