His favorite student, Hui, lived poor and happy and died young. The Master wept so hard that his students said it was too much. He answered: “If I am not to mourn bitterly for this man, for whom should I mourn?”
From The Analects by Confucius
His favorite student, Hui, lived poor and happy and died young. The Master wept so hard that his students said it was too much. He answered: “If I am not to mourn bitterly for this man, for whom should I mourn?”
From The Analects by Confucius
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