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「有事君人者，
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事是君則為容悅者也；Follow a condition and its consequence ↗有安社稷臣者，Locate the unknown ↗以安社稷為悅者也；Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗達可行於天下而後行之者也；Locate a relation ↗達可行於天下而後行之者也；Read the relationship between clauses ↗Watch recurrence: 者 × 8 有 × 4 也 × 4 事 × 2 君 × 2 人 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 難二第三十七而後行之使之而義也，桓公宿義，須遺冠而後行之，則是桓公行義，非為遺冠也？是雖雪遺冠之恥於小人，而亦生遺義之恥於君子矣。且夫發囷倉
韓非子 · 心度第五十四行於天下佚則荒，荒則不治，不治則亂，而賞刑不行於天下者必塞。故欲舉大功而難致其力者，大功不可幾而舉也；
荀子 · 議兵篇第十五行於天下此四帝兩王，皆以仁義之兵行於天下也。故近者親其善，遠方慕其義；兵不血刃，遠邇來服，德盛於此，施及四極。
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- 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.
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- KR1h0001_013.txt, lines 240–250. MENG 7A19; tr. D. C. Lau 2.271
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