Hanfeizi · 難一第三十六
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「太師誰撞？」
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「太師誰撞？」Locate the unknown ↗「今者有小人言於側者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗「今者有小人言於側者，Locate a relation ↗是非君人者之言也。」Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 曰 × 4 師 × 3 者 × 3 人 × 3 公 × 2 撞 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 正名篇第二十二者之言也藉而無極，甚勞而無功，貪而無名。故知者之言也，慮之易知也，行之易安也，持之易立也，成則必得其所好而不遇其所惡焉。而愚者反是。
荀子 · 王制篇第九君人者之；欲立功名，則莫若尚賢使能矣；──是君人者之大節也。
荀子 · 王霸篇第十一君人者之長，是亦無它故焉，知一政於管仲也，是君人者之要守也。知者易為之興力而功名綦大，舍是而孰足為也？故古之人有大功名者，必道是者也；喪
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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 525–534. HF 36.09:02 [9]; jiaoshi 323; jishi 806; shiping 1369; jiaozhu 505; m427; Liao 2.149
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