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富貴不能淫，貧賤不能移，威武不能屈
Wealth and rank cannot corrupt such a person; poverty and low status cannot shift them; force cannot bend them.
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居天下之廣居，
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荀子 · 君道篇第十二立天下之，如是者，能愛人也。故舉天下之大道，立天下之大功，然後隱其所憐所愛，其下猶足以為天下之顯諸侯。故曰：「唯明主為能愛其所愛，闇主則
莊子 · 齊物論第二天下之正，鳥見之高飛，麋鹿見之決驟。四者孰知天下之正色哉？
荀子 · 大略篇第二十七居天下之欲近四旁，莫如中央，故王者必居天下之中，禮也。
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論語 · Recover what the text leaves unstated本立而道生論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Recover what the text leaves unstated吾日三省吾身論語 · Notice a change in argument structure使民以時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
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_006.txt, lines 127–136. MENG 3B02:04; tr. D. C. Lau 1.117
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