Hanfeizi · 說疑第四十四
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往世之主，
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有得人而身安國存者，Read the relationship between clauses ↗有得人而身安國存者，Locate the unknown ↗有得人而身安國存者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗故人主左右不可不慎也。Follow an explicit inference ↗故人主左右不可不慎也。Keep different negatives apart ↗為人主者誠明於臣之所言，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗Watch recurrence: 人 × 5 之 × 3 主 × 3 得 × 3 而 × 3 者 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 君道篇第十二為人主者為人主者，莫不欲彊而惡弱，欲安而惡危，欲榮而惡辱，是禹、桀之所同也。要此三欲，辟此三惡，果何
論語 · 子張篇第十九可不慎也「君子一言以為知，一言以為不知，言不可不慎也。夫子之不可及也，猶天之不可階而升也。
孟子 · 公孫丑上可不慎也傷人，函人惟恐傷人。巫匠亦然。故術不可不慎也。
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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
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_044.txt, lines 84–92. HF 44.02:03; jiaoshi 232; jishi 614; jiaozhu 596; shiping 1522
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