Hanfeizi · 喻老第二十一
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「爾以玉為寶，
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老子 · 第六十四章而不貴難慎終如始，則無敗事。是以聖人欲不欲，而不貴難得之貨；學不學，而復眾人之所過。以輔萬物之自然，而弗敢為。
老子 · 第三章不貴難得不尚賢，使民不爭；不貴難得之貨，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。
老子 · 第十二章難得之貨五味令人口爽。馳騁田獵，令人心發狂；難得之貨，令人行妨。是以聖人之治也，為腹不為目。故去彼取此。
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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_021.txt, lines 447–454. HF 21.14:2; jishi 404; shiping 704; jiaozhu 224; m200
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