Laozi · Daodejing · 第三章
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不尚賢，使民不爭
Do not elevate the worthy, and the people are made not to contend.
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使民不爭；
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韓非子 · 喻老第二十一不敢為也，則臧獲有餘。故曰：「恃萬物之自然而不敢為也。」
莊子 · 知北遊第二十二夫知者不謂真是也，狂屈似之；我與汝終不近也。夫知者不言，言者不知，故聖人行不言之教。道不可致，德不可至。仁可為也，義可虧也，禮相偽也。
韓非子 · 喻老第二十一不貴難得玉，而子罕不欲玉。故曰：「欲不欲，而不貴難得之貨。」
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · Notice a change in argument structure使民以時論語 · Keep different negatives apart不患人之不己知論語 · Keep different negatives apart回也不愚Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0057_003.txt, lines 14–28. LAO 3.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 7 ; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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