A COMPILATION OF TRIADS

ORIGINS OF WRONG DOING:

 

  1. There are three companions of lawlessness:
    1. pride
    2. envy
    3. rapine
  2. Three things hateful to the Mighty Ones and to human kind:
    1. a weak look
    2. a deceitful tongue
    3. a mischievous spirit
  3. Three roots of every evil:
    1. covetousness
    2. falsehood
    3. arrogance
  4. Three joys of the lawless:
    1. gluttony
    2. fighting
    3. fickleness
  5. Three things which end ill:
    1. falsehood
    2. envy
    3. guile
  6. Three bad tendencies in a person:
    1. pride without generosity
    2. covetousness without justice
    3. anger without mercy
  7. Three chief evil qualities of people:
    1. sloth
    2. deceit
    3. arrogance
  8. Three things pleasant to see:
    1. an unhappy person becoming happy
    2. a miser becoming generous
    3. the lawless submitting to authority
  9. Three chief things which deceive people:
    1. fair words
    2. desire of gain
    3. ignorance
  10. Three things it is no worse to lose than to keep:
    1. wealth
    2. youth
    3. love of the world
  11. There are three things:
    1. counsel
    2. loss
    3. shame
      1. and they who have not the first will get the other two
  12. Three nourishment's of arrogance:
    1. recklessness
    2. wealth
    3. excess
  13. Three things which attack the weakest:
    1. enemies
    2. wealth
    3. pride.
  14. Three things better forsaken by those who love them:
    1. sport
    2. carousal
    3. strife
  15. Three things of which only the happy and wise beware:
    1. the breaking of oaths
    2. drunkenness
    3. vanity
  16. Three things whose deficiency is not worse than their excess:
    1. festivity
    2. wealth
    3. pleasure
  17. Three things which follow sloth:
    1. evil deeds
    2. evil report
    3. evil end
  18. Three things odious in a person:
    1. ignorance
    2. bad deeds
    3. perversity
  19. Three things unseemly for a person:
    1. to think themselves wise
    2. to think another foolish
    3. to think their appearance what they desire
  20. Three chief corruption's of the world:
    1. sloth
    2. pride
    3. extravagance
  21. Three things which afflict the world:
    1. envy
    2. anger
    3. covetousness
  22. Three strange things in the world:
    1. loving war more than peace
    2. loving excess more than sufficiency
    3. loving falsehood more than truth

Contents
1. Preface 22. Respecting The Bad Home
2. An Omnium Gatherum 23. Pertaining To The Fili'
3. Respecting Excellence 24. Pertaining To Contracts And Agreements
4. Respecting The Conscientious Person 26. Good Health And Bad
5. Respecting The Rewards Of Excellence 27. Advisements Of Prudence
6. Origins Of Wrong Doing 28. Respecting The Order Of Nature
7. Respecting Those Gone Amiss 29. Respecting The Nature Of Humankind
8. The Profits Of Those Who Have Gone Amiss 30. Respecting Action
9. Respecting Wealth And Poverty 31. Respecting Knowledge
10. Miscellaneous Wisdom 32. Respecting Wisdom
11. The Order Of Society 33. Respecting Those Who Are Wise
12. The Underpinnings Of Society 34. Respecting The Fool And Their Inanity
13. The Banes Of Society 35. Respecting Wisdom Applied
14. Respecting Land And Husbandry 36. Respecting Ambitions And The Roads To Success
15. The Respectable Citizen 37. Respecting Friendship
16. The Nocuous Citizen 38. Respecting Happiness
17. Respecting Legacies 39. Respecting Philosophy
18. Monitorial Advisements 40. Respecting Warriors
19. Manifold Blessings And Beneficence 41. Respecting The True Human
20. Respecting Etiquette 42. Respecting Spirituality
21. Respecting The Good Home  
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