title: Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings
author: Burton Watson
description: Han Fie Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) was a prince of the ruling house of the small state of Han. A representative of the Fa-chia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, he produced the final and most readable exposition of its theories. Burton Watson is one of the world's most celebrated translators of Chinese and Japanese.
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  by Orson Scott Card
  
  
  (c) 1991 Orson Scott Card
  
  
  v1.0 (24-Jul-1999)
  
  
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  ## Chapter 1 — A PARTING
  
  
  <Today one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able
  to move from the place where you’re standing?>
  
  
  <You answered …>
  
  
  <I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me
  from the obligation to act.>
  
  
  <You who speak languages, you are such liars.>
  
  
  Han Fei-tzu sat in lotus position on the bare wooden floor beside his wife’s
  sickbed. Until a moment ago he might have been sleeping; he wasn’t sure. But
  now he was aware of the slight change in her breathing, a change as subtle as
  the wind from a butterfly’s passing.
  
  
  Jiang-qing, for her part, must also have detected some change in him, for she
  had not spoken before and now she did speak. Her voice was very soft. But Han
  Fei-tzu could hear her clearly, for the house w