Hanfeizi · 解老第二十
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是以聖人愛精神而貴處靜。
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是以聖人愛精神而貴處靜。Follow an explicit inference ↗是以聖人愛精神而貴處靜。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗是以聖人愛精神而貴處靜。Read the relationship between clauses ↗不愛精神不貴處靜，Keep different negatives apart ↗此甚大於兕虎之害。Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 愛 × 2 精 × 2 神 × 2 貴 × 2 處 × 2 靜 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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老子 · 第二章是以聖人相較，高下相傾，音聲相和，前後相隨。是以聖人處無為之事，行不言之教。
老子 · 第三章是以聖人貨，使民不為盜。不見可欲，使心不亂。是以聖人之治：虛其心，實其腹；弱其志，強其骨。恒使民無知無欲。使夫知者不敢為也，為無為，則無
老子 · 第七章是以聖人以能長且久者，以其不自生，故能長生。是以聖人後其身而身先，外其身而身存。非以其無私耶？故能成其私。
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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.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_020.txt, lines 1266–1270. HF 20.31.01; jishi 371; shiping 654; jiaozhu 203; m 1i3
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