{"id":"hanfeizi-021-0020","work":"hanfeizi","chapter":"hanfeizi-021","chapterTitle":"喻老第二十一","chapterNumber":21,"ordinal":20,"text":"有形之類，大必起於小；行久之物，族必起於少。故曰：「天下之難事必作於易，天下之大事必作於細。」","source":{"repository":"https://github.com/kanripo/KR3c0005","commit":"55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332","file":"KR3c0005_021.txt","lineStart":215,"lineEnd":221,"fileSha256":"54e557becf584f867b4e487b9e8f543e076e809dc0126db75de55702ce4de54c","edition":"tls","sourceLabels":["HF 21.10:01; jishi 396; shiping 691; jiaozhu 220; m196"],"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/kanripo/KR3c0005/blob/55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332/KR3c0005_021.txt#L215-L221","rawUrl":"/data/classical-0.12.0/sources/KR3c0005/KR3c0005_021.txt","author":"Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.","contributor":"Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"route":"/classical/passage/hanfeizi-021-0020/","notes":[{"id":"r118","passage":"hanfeizi-021-0020","quote":"天下之難事必作於易，天下之大事必作於細","focus":"於","start":26,"end":45,"focusStart":33,"topics":["yu","parallel"],"translation":"The world's difficult affairs necessarily begin in what is easy; its great affairs begin in what is small.","note":"The repeated structure places 易 and 細 after 於 as starting conditions. 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