Sunzi · Art of War · 火攻篇
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怒可以復喜，慍可以復悅，亡國不可以復存，死者不可以復生
Anger can return to joy, and resentment to pleasure; a ruined state cannot simply be restored, nor the dead brought back to life.
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主不可以怒而興師，
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主不可以怒而興師，Keep different negatives apart ↗主不可以怒而興師，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗合於利而動，Locate a relation ↗此安國全軍之道也。Locate the unknown ↗Watch recurrence: 可 × 6 以 × 6 不 × 5 而 × 4 復 × 4 之 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 外儲說右上第三十四死者不可重斂，而田成氏厚施。齊嘗大飢，道旁餓死者不可勝數也，父子相牽而趨田成氏者不聞不生。故秦周之民相與歌之曰：『謳乎，其已乎！苞乎，其
韓非子 · 難四第三十九可以怒而，不以褚師之不死而公父之不誅也，以未可以怒而有怒之色，未可誅而有誅之心。
韓非子 · 備內第十七主不可以故人主不可以不加心於利己死者。故日月暈圍於外，其賊在內，備其所憎，禍在所愛。
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Name the one, thing, or situation未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也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_013.txt, lines 69–79. SUN 12.5 tr. Giles 1910: 158-159. See Guo Huaruo 1962: 221-222; Wu Jiulong 1991: 231-232; Li Ling 1997: 120, tr. Ames 1993: 166; tr. Sawyer 1993: 184
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