Hanfeizi · 難三第三十八
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景公以百乘之家賜，
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景公以百乘之家賜，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗是使景公無術以知富之侈，Notice a change in argument structure ↗而獨儉於上，Locate a relation ↗Watch recurrence: 以 × 5 公 × 3 而 × 3 侈 × 3 於 × 3 景 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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論語 · 公冶長篇第五百乘之家求也何如？」子曰：「求也，千室之邑，百乘之家，可使為之宰也，不知其仁也。」「赤也何如？」子曰：「赤也，束帶立於朝，可使與賓客言也
孟子 · 梁惠王上百乘之家，必千乘之家；千乘之國，弒其君者，必百乘之家。萬取千焉，千取百焉，不為不多矣。苟為後義而先利，不奪不饜。
孟子 · 萬章下百乘之家百乘之家也，有友五人焉：樂正裘、牧仲，其三人則予忘之矣。獻子之與此五人者友也，無獻子之家者也
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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.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_038.txt, lines 400–413. HF 38.10:01; jiaoshi 353; jishi 854; shiping 1429; jiaozhu 546; m458; Liao 2.180
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