This Han Feizi ‑ Chapter 39.3 offers dual rebuttals over Zhao Gong’s murder by Gao Qumi. It debates statecraft: whether rulers should promptly execute hated ministers or avoid excessive, untimely punishments that breed widespread enemies.
This Zhuangzi ‑ Ze Yang chapter includes the famous snail‑horns parable. Through varied dialogues, it diminishes human conflicts, explores relational causation, and advocates transcending narrow worldly standpoints for the Dao.