Zhuangzi · 列御寇第三十二
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吾固告汝曰人將保汝，
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吾固告汝曰人將保汝，Track speakers and addressees ↗非汝能使人保汝，Keep different negatives apart ↗而汝不能使人无保汝也，Read the relationship between clauses ↗而汝不能使人无保汝也，Keep different negatives apart ↗Watch recurrence: 汝 × 7 保 × 4 人 × 3 而 × 3 也 × 3 曰 × 2. 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不能使人，非刺骨髓，則煩心不可支也；非如是，不能使人以半寸砥石彈之。今人主之於治亦然：非不知有苦則安；欲治其國，非如是不能聽聖知而誅亂臣
孟子 · 盡心下不能使人孟子曰：「梓匠輪輿能與人規矩，不能使人巧。」
荀子 · 非十二子篇第六不能使人士君子之所能為不能為：君子能為可貴，不能使人必貴己；能為可信，不能使人必信己；能為可用，不能使人必用己。故君子恥不脩，不恥見汙；
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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_032.txt, lines 95–106. ZHUANG 32.1.11 Guo Qingfan 1040; Wang Shumin 1252; Fang Yong 852; Chen Guying i30
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