Hanfeizi · 難三第三十八
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下智有之」。
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安取懷惠之民？Locate the unknown ↗說以「悅近來遠」，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗此非功伐之論也，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 7 也 × 4 上 × 3 民 × 3 說 × 3 以 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 儒效篇第八所謂賢者君子之所謂賢者，非能徧能人之所能之謂也；君子之所謂知者，非能徧知人之所知之謂也；君子之所謂辨者，非
孟子 · 萬章上而說之以之溝中。其自任以天下之重如此，故就湯而說之以伐夏救民。吾未聞枉己而正人者也，況辱己以正天下者乎？
莊子 · 盜跖第二十九之所謂賢「世之所謂賢士，莫若伯夷、叔齊。伯夷、叔齊辭孤竹之君，而餓死於首陽之山，骨肉不葬。鮑焦飾行非世，
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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 349–362. HF 38.08:06; jiaoshi 353; jishi 852; shiping 1428; jiaozhu 543; m455; Liao 2.177
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55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332- Reuse
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