Hanfeizi · 內儲說上七術第三十
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「此人臣之善也，
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非人主之所行也。Keep different negatives apart ↗夫人臣必仁而後可與謀，Read the relationship between clauses ↗不忍人而後可近也；Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 人 × 5 也 × 4 可 × 4 不 × 4 臣 × 2 之 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 勸學篇第一而後可與道至，然後接之，非其道則避之。故禮恭而後可與言道之方，辭順而後可與言道之理，色從而後可與言道之致。
莊子 · 天道第十三不仁則不孔子曰：「然。君子不仁則不成，不義則不生。仁義，真人之性也，又將奚為矣？」
莊子 · 知北遊第二十二不可與謀其實知，不以故自持。媒媒晦晦，无心而不可與謀。彼何人哉！」
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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_030.txt, lines 753–761. HF 30.26:02; jishi 546; jiaozhu 318; shiping 945
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