Hanfeizi · 說林第二十二
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許之而大歡，
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莊子 · 庚桑楚第二十三以不得已知者，謨也；知者之所不知，猶睨也。動以不得已之謂德，動無非我之謂治，名相反而實相順也。
孟子 · 梁惠王下不得已也侵之，去之岐山之下居焉。非擇而取之，不得已也。苟為善，後世子孫必有王者矣。
孟子 · 公孫丑下不得已也是予所欲也；不遇故去，豈予所欲哉？予不得已也。予三宿而出晝，於予心猶以為速，
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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_022.txt, lines 240–244. HF 22.11:03; jishi 425; jiaozhu 238; shiping 742
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