Hanfeizi · 亡徵第十五
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饕貪而無饜，
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荀子 · 議兵篇第十五而不顧其無急勝而忘敗，無威內而輕外，無見其利而不顧其害，凡慮事欲孰而用財欲泰，夫是之謂五權。
莊子 · 山木第二十而不求其愚而朴，少私而寡欲；知作而不知藏，與而不求其報；不知義之所適，不知禮之所將；
韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二而不周於、父，至親也，而或譙或怨者，皆挾相為而不周於為己也。夫買庸而播耕者，主人費家而美食，調布而求易錢者，
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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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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR3c0005_015.txt, lines 63–69. HF 15.01:06; jiaoshi 116; jishi 267; jiaozhu 143; shiping 504
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