Hanfeizi · 顯學第五十
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夫求聖通之士者，
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為民知之不足師用。Keep different negatives apart ↗夫民智之不足用亦明矣。Hear explanation and a changed situation ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 3 民 × 3 夫 × 2 不 × 2 足 × 2 用 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 姦劫弒臣第十四之不足用吾以是明仁義愛惠之不足用，而嚴刑重罰之可以治國也。無棰策之威，銜橛之備，雖造父不能以服馬；
韓非子 · 難勢第四十智之不足，能亂天下：吾以此知勢位之足恃，而賢智之不足慕也。夫弩弱而矢高者，激於風也；身不肖而令行者，得助於眾也。
韓非子 · 難勢第四十足用亦明、舜戶說而人辨之，不能治三家。夫勢之足用亦明矣，而曰「必待賢」，則亦不然矣。
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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_050.txt, lines 553–562. HF 50.11:04; jiaoshi 21; jishi 694; jiaozhu 694; shiping 1796; Watson 128
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