Hanfeizi · 難三第三十八
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管仲之射隱不得也。
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荀子 · 君子篇第二十四而不能用事無所往而不用，知所利也。吳有伍子胥而不能用，國至乎亡，倍道失賢也。故尊聖者王，貴賢者霸，敬賢者存，慢賢者亡，
莊子 · 徐无鬼第二十四是以一人仁義之行，唯且无誠，且假夫禽貪者器。是以一人之斷制（利）天下，譬之猶一覕也。夫堯知賢人之利天下也，而不知其賊天下也，夫唯外乎賢者
孫子 · 軍爭篇以一人之故為旌旗。」夫金鼓旌旗者，所以一人之耳目也；人既專一，則勇者不得獨進，怯者不得獨退，此用眾之法也。故夜戰多火鼓，晝戰多旌
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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 179–190. HF 38.06:01; jiaoshi 351; jishi i49; shiping 1425; jiaozhu 541; m453; Liao 2.175
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