Laozi · Daodejing · 第六十六章
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江海所以能為百谷王者，
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江海所以能為百谷王者，Focus on what an action concerns ↗江海所以能為百谷王者，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗江海所以能為百谷王者，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗江海所以能為百谷王者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗是以聖人之欲上民也，Follow an explicit inference ↗Watch recurrence: 以 × 8 其 × 5 之 × 5 也 × 5 下 × 4 民 × 4. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 王制篇第九故天下莫天下，義眇天下，威眇天下。仁眇天下，故天下莫不親也；義眇天下，故天下莫不貴也；威眇天下，故天下莫敢敵也。以不敵之威，輔服人之道，
莊子 · 天道第十三下莫能與靜而聖，動而王，无為也而尊，樸素而天下莫能與之爭美。
荀子 · 儒效篇第八莫能與之莫不願得以為臣；用百里之地而千里之國莫能與之爭勝，笞捶暴國，齊一天下，而莫能傾也。是大儒之徵也。
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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_066.txt, lines 14–28. LAO 66.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 97; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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