A COMPILATION OF TRIADS

RESPECTING THE REWARDS OF EXCELLENCE:

1. Three things by which excellence is established:
   1. Taking all things in moderation with nothing in excess
   2. abidance to oaths
   3. acceptance of responsibility.
2. It is easier to determine the truth when these three prime evidences are existent: p
   1. hysical items which tell a story
   2. trustworthy witnesses which tell their story
   3. concurrence with known truths
3. Three things from which never to be moved:
   1. one's oaths
   2. one's Gods
   3. the truth.
4. Three things which strengthen a person to stand against the whole world:
   1. Seeing the quality and beauty of truth
   2. seeing beneath the cloak of falsehood
   3. seeing to what ends truth and falsehood come.
5. There are three things excellent among worldly affairs:
   1. hating folly
   2. loving excellence
   3. endeavoring constantly to learn.
6. Three manifestations of humanity:
   1. Affectionate bounty
   2. loving manner
   3. praiseworthy knowledge
7. Three things which spring from following lawful goodness:
   1. universal love from the Wise
   2. worldly sufficiency
   3. better place in the life to come ²².
8. Three things without which there can be nothing good:
   1. truth
   2. peace
   3. generosity
9. Three beautiful beings of the world:
   1. the upright
   2. the skillful
   3. the reasonable
10. Three tendencies of a persons lifetime:
    1. hope
    2. love
    3. joy.
11. Three things excellent for anyone:
    1. valor
    2. learning
    3. discretion.
12. Three things must be united before good can come of them:
    1. thinking well
    2. speaking well
    3. acting well.
13. Three things are becoming a person:
    1. knowledge
    2. good deeds
    3. gentleness.
14. Three things it is everyone's duty to do:
    1. listen humbly
    2. answer discreetly
    3. judge kindly
15. Three things one should keep always before them:
    1. their worldly duty
    2. their conscience
    3. the Laws of Nature.
16. Three sureties of happiness:
    1. good habits
    2. amiability
    3. forbearance.
17. Three things without which there can be nothing good:
    1. truth
    2. valor ²³
    3. generosity
18. Three marvellous deeds:
    1. to forgive a wrong done
    2. to amend everything possible
    3. to refrain from injustice.
19. Three joys of the happy:
    1. avoidance of excess
    2. peace
    3. loyalty
20. Three antagonists of goodness:
    1. arrogance
    2. passion
    3. covetousness.
21. Three rewards of those who learn to temper their emotions:
    1. experience
    2. strength
    3. introspection
22. Three things beside which the baneful cannot be:
    1. conformity to law
    2. knowledge
    3. love.
23. Three things must wait long before they are attained:
    1. honesty from covetousness
    2. wisdom from arrogance
    3. wealth from sloth.
24. Three things hard to obtain:
    1. cold fire
    2. dry water
    3. lawful covetousness
25. Three duties of the excellent person:
    1. Cherish their mate and children
    2. Love their country
    3. Obey the laws of their people.
26. Three manifestations of excellence:
    1. the honoring of parents
    2. the respecting of the aged
    3. instructing the young
       1. and to this a fourth, defending of infancy and innocence.
27. Three reasons for supplicating to the Mighty Ones:
    1. because it is a pleasure to you
    2. that you may be a friend of those who are wise
    3. because your soul is immortal.
28. Three reasons to war against fault:
    1. to not do to others as you would not have them do to you
    2. that you not be arrogant
    3. that you might always let the light of wisdom shine.
29. Three ways to lose excellence:
    1. to become a servant to one's passions
    2. to not learn from the examples set by others
    3. to indulge to excess.
30. Three fair things that hide ugliness:
    1. good manners in the ill favored
    2. skill in a common person
    3. wisdom in misshapen
31. Three candles that illume every darkness:
    1. truth
    2. nature
    3. knowledge

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