Styled Ziyuan, also known as Yan Yuan, he was Confucius most beloved disciple, renowned for his virtue. He lived in poverty with joy, content with "a single bamboo bowl of rice, a single gourd of drink, living in a humble lane." Confucius praised his love of learning and mourned his early death.
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哀公问：「弟子孰为好学？」孔子对曰：「有颜回者好学，不迁怒，不贰过。不幸短命死矣。今也则亡，未闻好学者也。」
Duke Ai asked, "Among your disciples, who is the most devoted to learning?" Conf…
子曰：「回也，其心三月不违仁，其余则日月至焉而已矣。」
The Master said: "Ah, Hui! His heart did not depart from humaneness for three mo…
子曰：「贤哉，回也！一箪食，一瓢饮，在陋巷，人不堪其忧，回也不改其乐。贤哉，回也！」
The Master said: "What a man of virtue Yan Hui was! With a single bamboo bowl of…
颜渊喟然叹曰:「仰之弥高，钻之弥坚，瞻之在前，忽焉在后。夫子循循然善诱人，博我以文，约我以礼，欲罢不能。既竭吾才，如有所…
Yan Yuan sighed deeply and said: "The more I look up to my Master's learning and…
子曰：「语之而不惰者，其回也与！」
The Master said, "The one who never grows weary when I speak to him — surely tha…
子谓颜渊，曰：「惜乎！吾见其进也，未见其止也。」
The Master, speaking of Yan Yuan, said, "What a loss! I saw him ever pressing fo…
德行：颜渊，闵子骞，冉伯牛，仲弓。言语：宰我，子贡。政事：冉有，季路。文学：子游，子夏。
(Among the Master's disciples, each excelled in his own way.) Outstanding in mor…
子曰：「回也非助我者也，于吾言无所不说。」
The Master said, "Hui is not one who helps me grow — there is nothing I say that…
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Ji Kangzi asked, "Among your disciples, who is the most devoted to learning?" Th…
颜渊死，颜路请子之车以为之椁。子曰：「才不才，亦各言其子也。鲤也死，有棺而无椁。吾不徒行以为之椁。以吾从大夫之后，不可徒…
When Yan Yuan died, his father Yan Lu begged the Master to sell his carriage to …
颜渊死，子曰：「噫！天丧予！天丧予！」
When Yan Yuan died, the Master said: "Alas! Heaven has forsaken me! Heaven has f…
颜渊死，子哭之恸。从者曰：「子恸矣！」曰：「有恸乎？非夫人之为恸而谁为！」
When Yan Yuan died, the Master wept with overwhelming grief. His attendants said…
颜渊死，门人欲厚葬之。子曰：「不可。」门人厚葬之。子曰：「回也视予犹父也，予不得视犹子也。非我也，夫二三子也。」
When Yan Yuan died, the disciples wished to give him an elaborate funeral. The M…
子曰：「回也其庶乎，屡空。赐不受命，而货殖焉，亿则屡中。」
The Master said, "Hui has almost attained perfect virtue, yet he is often in wan…
子畏于匡，颜渊后。子曰：「吾以女为死矣。」曰：「子在，回何敢死？」
The Master was detained in Kuang, and Yan Yuan arrived after the others. The Mas…