Hanfeizi · 人主第五十二
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今人主非肯用法術之士，
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今人主非肯用法術之士，Keep different negatives apart ↗則賢智之士孰敢當三子之危而進其智能者乎？Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則賢智之士孰敢當三子之危而進其智能者乎？Locate the unknown ↗則賢智之士孰敢當三子之危而進其智能者乎？Read the relationship between clauses ↗則賢智之士孰敢當三子之危而進其智能者乎？Track whose, which, and whose perspective ↗則賢智之士孰敢當三子之危而進其智能者乎？Name the one, thing, or situation ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 5 士 × 2 智 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 議兵篇第十五之所以亂兵也。今女不求之於本而索之於末，此世之所以亂也。」
韓非子 · 二柄第七今人主非今人主非使賞罰之威利出於己也，聽其臣而行其賞罰，則一國之人皆畏其臣而易其君，歸其臣而去其君矣
韓非子 · 人主第五十二之危而進，獨合乎道言也，則法術之士安能蒙死亡之危而進說乎？此世之所以不治也。
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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
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_052.txt, lines 160–166. HF 52.02:09; jiaoshi 789; jishi 1119; jiaozhu 706; shiping 1i25; Liao 2.320; m 5i4
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