Hanfeizi · 難三第三十八
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其曰「甚然」則諛也。
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其曰「甚然」則諛也。Follow a condition and its consequence ↗今中期不知而尚言之。Read the relationship between clauses ↗Watch recurrence: 曰 × 3 不 × 3 之 × 3 也 × 2 知 × 2 言 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 難三第三十八昭王之問或曰：昭王之問也有失，左右、中期之對也有過。凡明主之治國也，任其勢。勢不可害，則雖強天下無柰何也，
韓非子 · 定法第四十三治不踰官子未盡於術，商君未盡於法也。申子言『治不踰官，雖知弗言。』
韓非子 · 定法第四十三治不踰官治不踰官，謂之守職也可；知而弗言，是不謂過也。人主以一國目視，故視莫明焉；以一國耳聽，故聽莫
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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 686–693. HF 38.15:06 [12]; jiaoshi 360; jishi 864; shiping 1440; jiaozhu 551; m462; Liao 2.185
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