Hanfeizi · 三守第十六
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然則群臣直莫敢忠主憂國以爭社稷之利害。
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然則群臣直莫敢忠主憂國以爭社稷之利害。Follow a condition and its consequence ↗然則群臣直莫敢忠主憂國以爭社稷之利害。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 主 × 3 國 × 3 則 × 2 臣 × 2 敢 × 2 忠 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 八說第四十七稷之利害匹夫之私毀，人主之公利也。人主不察社稷之利害，而用匹夫之私譽，索國之無危亂，不可得矣。
韓非子 · 亡徵第十五社稷之利不為人主之孝，而慕匹夫之孝，不顧社稷之利，而聽主母之令，女子用國，刑餘用事者，可亡也。
韓非子 · 五蠹第四十九社稷之利，為設詐稱，借於外力，以成其私，而遺社稷之利。
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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_016.txt, lines 84–89. HF 16.02:03; jiaoshi 802; jishi 2i4; jiaozhu 153; shiping 533
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