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When Yan Hui died, Confucius cried out in grief: “Alas! Heaven is destroying me! Heaven is destroying me!”
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Mencius said: “The influence of a noble person lasts for five generations and then ends; the legacy of a petty person also ends after five generations. I never had the chance to be Confucius’s direct disciple, but I learned his Dao by privately admiring and studying through his later followers.”