Laozi · Daodejing · 第五十六章
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故不可得而親，
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韓非子 · 外儲說左下第三十三亦不可得名為多與之，其實少；雖無臞，亦不可得也。主不審其情實，坐而患之，馬猶不肥也。」
孟子 · 滕文公下亦不可得而置之莊嶽之間數年，雖日撻而求其楚，亦不可得矣。
荀子 · 君子篇第二十四故為天下不與爭能而致善用其功。有而不有也，夫故為天下貴矣。《詩》曰：「淑人君子，其儀不忒，其儀不忒，正是四國。」此之謂也。
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- 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_056.txt, lines 26–32. LAO 56.2; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 81; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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