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人含其知，
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彼曾、史、楊、墨、師曠、工倕、離朱者，Name the one, thing, or situation ↗皆外立其德而以爚亂天下者也，Read the relationship between clauses ↗皆外立其德而以爚亂天下者也，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗Watch recurrence: 其 × 3 天 × 3 下 × 3 人 × 2 含 × 2 則 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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韓非子 · 難勢第四十亂天下者之勢以治天下也，其勢何以異桀之勢也，亂天下者也。夫勢者，非能必使賢者用之，而不肖者不用之也。賢者用之則天下治，不肖者用之則天下亂
韓非子 · 難勢第四十亂天下者而以威勢之利濟亂世之不肖人，則是以勢亂天下者多矣，以勢治天下者寡矣。
韓非子 · 說林第二十二則天下不則必錦衣九重，高臺廣室也。稱此以求，則天下不足矣。聖人見微以知萌，見端以知末。
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- Work
- 莊子 · Zhuangzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0126 · base edition CHANT
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0126_010.txt, lines 223–231. ZHUANG 10.1.20 Guo Qingfan 353; Wang Shumin 356; Fang Yong 261; Chen Guying 260
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