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36 Han characters · 24 distinct forms · 5 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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然則聖人之於禮義積偽也，
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Watch recurrence: 之 × 4 也 × 3 然 × 2 則 × 2 人 × 2 禮 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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孟子 · 公孫丑下然則聖人其將畔而使之與？」曰：「不知也。」「然則聖人且有過與？」曰：「周公，弟也；管叔，兄也。周公之過，不亦宜乎？
韓非子 · 姦劫弒臣第十四則聖人之從是觀之，則聖人之治國也，固有使人不得不愛我之道，而不恃人之以愛為我也。恃人之以愛為我者危矣，恃吾不可
莊子 · 胠篋第十則聖人之人之道不行；天下之善人少而不善人多，則聖人之利天下也少而害天下也多。
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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_023.txt, lines 489–493. XUN 23.12.04; 23:4a, Knoblock 3:157
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