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80 Han characters · 48 distinct forms · 13 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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禮者、治辨之極也，
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禮者、治辨之極也，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗故堅甲利兵不足以為武，Follow an explicit inference ↗故堅甲利兵不足以為武，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗Watch recurrence: 之 × 6 也 × 6 以 × 5 不 × 5 由 × 4 道 × 3. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 飾邪第十九刑不足以民，用刑過者民不畏。有賞不足以勸，有刑不足以禁，則國雖大，必危。
孟子 · 離婁上得天下也孟子曰：「三代之得天下也以仁，其失天下也以不仁。國之所以廢興存亡者亦然。
韓非子 · 十過第十國之本也聽楚之虛言而輕強秦之實禍，則危國之本也。」韓君弗聽。公仲怒而歸，十日不朝。
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- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_015.txt, lines 644–654. XUN 15:4:1, Beida p.244; Knoblock 2:229
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