Hanfeizi · 定法第四十三
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公孫鞅之治秦也，
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是以其民用力勞而不休，Follow an explicit inference ↗是以其民用力勞而不休，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗是以其民用力勞而不休，Keep different negatives apart ↗故其國富而兵強；Follow an explicit inference ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 7 其 × 4 不 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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莊子 · 刻意第十五勞而不休之至也；无所於逆，粹之至也。故曰：形勞而不休則弊，精用而不已則勞，勞則竭。
韓非子 · 初見秦第一之治秦也前者穰侯之治秦也，用一國之兵而欲以成兩國之功，是故兵終身暴露於外，士民疲病於內，霸王之名不成。此固以
韓非子 · 內儲說上七術第三十公孫鞅之公孫鞅之法也重輕罪。重罪者，人之所難犯也；而小過者，人之所易去也。使人去其所易，無離其所難，
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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_043.txt, lines 94–103. HF 43.02:04; jiaoshi 78; jishi 906; shiping 1510; jiaozhu 589; m486; Liao 2.213
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