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故人心譬如槃水，
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故人心譬如槃水，Follow an explicit inference ↗則湛濁在下而清明在上，Follow a condition and its consequence ↗則足以見鬚眉而察膚理矣。Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗則足以見鬚眉而察膚理矣。Identify who undergoes the action ↗則足以見鬚眉而察膚理矣。Hear explanation and a changed situation ↗Watch recurrence: 而 × 3 則 × 3 正 × 2 動 × 2 湛 × 2 濁 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 外儲說左上第三十二則不可以無竅，則不可剖以盛物；而任重如堅石，則不可以剖而以斟，吾無以瓠為也。」
老子 · 第三十一章則不可以，而美之者，是樂殺人也。夫樂殺人者，則不可以得志於天下矣。
韓非子 · 姦劫弒臣第十四不可以得故左右知貞信之不可以得安利也，必曰：「我以忠信事上，積功勞而求安，是猶盲而欲知黑白之情，必不幾矣；
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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_021.txt, lines 435–442. XUN 21:7b:1, Beida p.356; Knoblock 3:107
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