Hanfeizi · 外儲說右上第三十四
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桓公問管仲曰：
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「治國何患？」Locate the unknown ↗此所以苦於社鼠也。Focus on what an action concerns ↗此所以苦於社鼠也。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗此所以苦於社鼠也。Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 社 × 3 鼠 × 3 之 × 3 曰 × 2 苦 × 2 木 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 外儲說右上第三十四木而塗之鼠哉？」對曰：「君亦見夫為社者乎？樹木而塗之，鼠穿其閒，掘穴託其中。燻之則恐焚木，灌之則恐塗阤，此社鼠之所以不得也。
韓非子 · 外儲說右下第三十五問管仲曰間，有鹿門稷者，行年七十而無妻。桓公問管仲曰：「有民老而無妻者乎？」管仲曰：「有鹿門稷者，行年七十矣而無妻。」桓公曰：「何以令之
韓非子 · 說林下第二十三桓公問管桓公問管仲：「富有涯乎？」荅曰：「水之以涯，其無水者也。富之以涯，其富已足者也。人不能自止於
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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_034.txt, lines 1048–1057. HF 34.23:08 [31]; jiaoshi 576; jishi 737; shiping 1275; jiaozhu 457
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