Laozi · Daodejing · 第六十二章
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道者、萬物之奧也，
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道者、萬物之奧也，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗不善人之所保也。Keep different negatives apart ↗何棄之有？Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 7 以 × 6 也 × 5 人 × 4 不 × 4 道 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孟子 · 離婁下人之不善孟子曰：「言人之不善，當如後患何？」
荀子 · 君道篇第十二道者何也道者何也？曰：君之所道也。君者何也？曰：能群也。能群也者何也？曰：善生養人者也，善班治人者也
荀子 · 法行篇第三十之所以貴子貢問於孔子曰：「君子之所以貴玉而賤珉者，何也？為夫玉之少而珉之多邪？」
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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_062.txt, lines 14–28. LAO 62.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 91; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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