Hanfeizi · 八說第四十七
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以智士之計，
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處乘勢之資而為其私急，Read the relationship between clauses ↗處乘勢之資而為其私急，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗處乘勢之資而為其私急，Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗為智者之不可信也，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 3 智 × 2 士 × 2 為 × 2 者 × 2 也 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 正名篇第二十二者之不可有人而欲南無多，而惡北無寡，豈為夫南者之不可盡也，離南行而北走也哉？今人所欲無多，所惡無寡，豈為夫所欲之不可盡也，離得欲之道而取
韓非子 · 存韓第二不可信也秦，未嘗不為秦病。今若有卒報之事，韓不可信也。
韓非子 · 姦劫弒臣第十四為其私急年而美材，大臣猶將得勢擅事主斷，而各為其私急。
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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_047.txt, lines 82–88. HF 47.02:02; jiaoshi 134; jishi 973; jiaozhu 632; shiping 1612
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