Hanfeizi · 難一第三十六
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易牙為君主味，
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易牙烝其子首而進之。Read the relationship between clauses ↗夫人情莫不愛其子，Keep different negatives apart ↗安能愛君？Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 愛 × 6 君 × 5 其 × 4 人 × 3 子 × 3 不 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 禮論篇第十九莫不愛其閒者，有血氣之屬，必有知；有知之屬，莫不愛其類。今夫大鳥獸則失亡其群匹，越月踰時，則必反鈆，過故鄉，則必徘徊焉，鳴號焉，躑躅焉，
韓非子 · 二柄第七刁自宮以腰而國中多餓人；齊桓公妬而好內，故豎刁自宮以治內；桓公好味，易牙蒸其子首而進之；燕子噲好賢，故子之明不受國。
韓非子 · 十過第十易牙為君管仲曰：「不可。夫易牙為君主味，君之所未嘗食唯人肉耳，易牙蒸其子首而進之，君所知也。
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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_036.txt, lines 305–315. HF 36.05:02 [5]; jiaoshi 319; jishi 800; shiping 1361; jiaozhu 501; m423;Liao 2.144
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