Hanfeizi · 難二第三十七
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「吾聞『君人者勞於索人，
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「吾聞『君人者勞於索人，Track speakers and addressees ↗「吾聞『君人者勞於索人，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗「吾聞『君人者勞於索人，Locate a relation ↗何為不易乎哉？」Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 人 × 3 吾 × 2 於 × 2 得 × 2 仲 × 2 父 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 君道篇第十二君人者勞身勞而國亂，功廢而名辱，社稷必危。故君人者勞於索之，而休於使之。《書》曰：「唯文王敬忌，一人以擇。」此之謂也。
韓非子 · 難二第三十七佚於使人不勞，使人不佚，而桓公曰「勞於索人，佚於使人」者，不然。且桓公得管仲又不難。管仲不死其君而歸桓公，鮑叔輕官讓能而任之，桓公得管仲
韓非子 · 難二第三十七得仲父之已得仲父之後，桓公奚遽易哉？若使桓公之任管仲，必知不欺己也，是知不欺主之臣也。然雖知不欺主之臣
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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.
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- KR3c0005_037.txt, lines 319–325. HF 37.09:02 [9]; jiaoshi 338; jishi i29; shiping 1399; jiaozhu 524; m441; Liao 2.163
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