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