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未有仁而遺其親者也
There has not been a benevolent person who abandons their parents.
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未有仁而遺其親者也，
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未有仁而遺其親者也，Keep different negatives apart ↗未有仁而遺其親者也，Read the relationship between clauses ↗未有仁而遺其親者也，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗何必曰利？」Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 3 未 × 2 有 × 2 仁 × 2 其 × 2 者 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 忠孝第五十一其親者也臣君，退不為家，是進則非其君，退則非其親者也。
韓非子 · 忠孝第五十一其親者也是誹謗其親者也。為人臣常譽先王之德厚而願之，是誹謗其君者也。非其親者知謂之不孝，而非其君者天下皆賢
荀子 · 榮辱篇第四其親者也鬭者、忘其身者也，忘其親者也，忘其君者也。行其少頃之怒而喪終身之軀，然且為之，是忘其身也；家室立殘，親戚不免乎刑
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · Name the one, thing, or situation未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也論語 · 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
- 孟子 · Mencius
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1h0001 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_001.txt, lines 47–50. MENG 1A01:04; tr. D. C. Lau 1. 3
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