Hanfeizi · 難勢第四十
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人之情性，
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賢者寡而不肖者眾，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗賢者寡而不肖者眾，Keep different negatives apart ↗而以威勢之利濟亂世之不肖人，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗則是以勢亂天下者多矣，Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則是以勢亂天下者多矣，Follow an explicit inference ↗則是以勢亂天下者多矣，Hear explanation and a changed situation ↗Watch recurrence: 者 × 4 之 × 3 以 × 3 勢 × 3 人 × 2 寡 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 胠篋第十亂天下者師曠、工倕、離朱者，皆外立其德而以爚亂天下者也，法之所无用也。
莊子 · 馬蹄第九治天下者「伯樂善治馬，而陶匠善治埴木。」此亦治天下者之過也。
莊子 · 馬蹄第九治天下者吾意善治天下者不然。彼民有常性，織而衣，耕而食，是謂同德；一而不黨，命曰天放。
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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_040.txt, lines 89–95. HF 40.03:02; jiaoshi 65; jishi 687; shiping 1475; jiaozhu 572; m476; Liao 2.200f
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