Sunzi · Art of War · 行軍篇
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卒未親附而罰之，則不服，不服則難用也
If troops are punished before they feel attachment, they do not submit; without submission they are difficult to employ.
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上雨水沫至，
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足以併力、料敵、取人而已；Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗足以併力、料敵、取人而已；Read the relationship between clauses ↗必擒於人。Locate a relation ↗卒未親附而罰之，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 不 × 6 以 × 5 則 × 5 也 × 4 而 × 4 服 × 4. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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The next warning about attachment without effective enforcement.
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Argument contrastWhy having rules is not the whole argumentSunzi places punishment within a sequence involving attachment and discipline. Hanfeizi distinguishes possessing standards from the arrangements that produce different outcomes. Both require reading beyond a slogan, though they propose different accounts of effective government.
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論語 · 為政篇第二則民不服：「舉直錯諸枉，則民服；舉枉錯諸直，則民不服。」
荀子 · 議兵篇第十五不可用也上足卬，則下可用也；上不足卬，則下不可用也。下可用則強，下不可用則弱，是強弱之常也。
孫子 · 武經七書本行軍篇上雨水沫上雨水沫至，欲涉者，待其定也；凡地有絕澗、天井、天牢、天羅、天陷、天隙，必亟去之，勿近也。吾
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論語 · Recover the object學而時習之論語 · Recover the object未之有也論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence行有餘力，則以學文論語 · Recover the object雖曰未學，吾必謂之學矣Edition, source, and reuse
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- 孫子 · Sunzi · Art of War
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- Traditionally attributed to Sun Wu; the date and formation of the received text are debated.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR3b0003 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR3b0003_009.txt, lines 144–165. SUN 9.6 tr. Giles 1910: 86-87. See Guo Huaruo 1962: 151-152; Wu Jiulong 1991: 152-153; Li Ling 1997: 91, tr. Ames 1993: 141; tr. Sawyer 1993: 173
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