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4/23/2024

Why It needs a thousand year to write this essay?

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The following article was  written in the year 1000  something.  It was 1000 years after the Six Kingdoms were destroyed by the Qin State.

The conclusion came 1000 years later.

Now situation is more or less the same.

United States has chosen Russia to be the first victim.

And everybody knows who is going to be the next. 



蘇洵   六國論

六國破滅,非兵不利,戰不善,弊在賂。賂而力虧,破滅之道也。或曰:「六國互喪,率賂耶?」曰:「不賂者以賂者喪,蓋失強援,不能獨完,故曰弊在賂也。」[1]

以攻取之外,小則獲邑,大則得城,較之所得,與戰勝而得者,其實百倍;諸侯之所亡,與戰敗而亡者,其實亦百倍。則之所大欲,諸侯之所大患,固不在戰矣。[2]思厥先祖父,暴霜露,斬荊棘,以有尺寸之地。子孫視之不甚惜,舉以予人,如棄草芥。今日割五城,明日割十城,然後得一夕安寢。起視四境,而兵又至矣。[3]然則諸侯之地有限,暴之欲無厭,奉之彌繁,侵之愈急,故不戰而強弱勝負已判矣。至於顛覆,理固宜然。古人云:「以地事,猶抱薪救火,薪不盡,火不滅。」此言得之。[4]

人未嘗賂,終繼五國遷滅,何哉?與而不助五國也。五國既喪,亦不免矣。之君,始有遠略,能守其土,義不賂。是故雖小國而後亡,斯用兵之效也。至卿為計,始速禍焉。[5]嘗五戰於,二敗而三勝。後者再,李牧連卻之。[6]以讒誅,[7]邯鄲為郡;[8]惜其用武而不終也。

革滅殆盡之際,可謂智力孤危,戰敗而亡,誠不得已。[9]向使三國各愛其地,[10]人勿附於,刺客不行,良將猶在,則勝負之數,存亡之理,當與相較,或未易量。[11]

嗚呼!以賂之地,封天下之謀臣;以事之心,禮天下之奇才;併力西向,則吾恐人食之不得下咽也。[12]悲夫!有如此之勢,而為人積威之所劫,日削月割,以趨於亡,為國者無使為積威之所劫哉![13] 

夫六國與皆諸侯,[14]其勢弱於[15]而猶有可以不賂而勝之之勢;茍以天下之大,而從六國破亡之故事,[16]是又在六國下矣![17

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