Hanfeizi · 難三第三十八

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難三第三十八 · 236 characters
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荀子 · 儒效篇第八所未嘗聞

倚物怪變,所未嘗聞也,所未嘗見也,卒然起一方,則舉統類而應之,無所儗怍,張法而度之,則晻然若合符節,是

莊子 · 盜跖第二十九自是之後

堯舜作,立群臣,湯放其主,武王殺紂。自是之後,以強陵弱,以眾暴寡。湯武以來,皆亂人之徒也。

莊子 · 外物第二十六之所未嘗

止遽。雖然,若是,勞者之務也,非佚者之所未嘗過而問焉。聖人之所以駴天下,神人未嘗過而問焉;

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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_038.txt, lines 28–34. HF 38.01:02; jiaoshi 347; jishi i44; jiaozhu 537; shiping 1418
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55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332
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