Hanfeizi · 觀行第二十四
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非其身重於千鈞也，勢不便也
It is not that his body is heavier than a thousand jun; the configuration is unfavorable.
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故勢有不可得，
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故烏獲輕千鈞而重其身，Read the relationship between clauses ↗故烏獲輕千鈞而重其身，Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗非其身重於千鈞也，Keep different negatives apart ↗非其身重於千鈞也，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 不 × 4 也 × 4 可 × 3 而 × 3 故 × 2 勢 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Body weight is rejected; an unfavorable configuration is proposed.
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · Identify a comparison and its standard未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也論語 · Keep different negatives apart不患人之不己知論語 · Keep different negatives apart回也不愚Edition, source, and reuse
- 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_024.txt, lines 60–69. HF 24.02:03; jishi 479; jiaozhu 273; shiping i35
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- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
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