Aṇguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāta
I. Bāla Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
or
More-Numbered Suttas
III. The Book of the Threes
I. The Fool
Sutta 3
Cintī Suttaṃ
The Fool (3)
Translated from the Pali by
F.L. Woodward, M.A.
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[3.1][bodh][upal] "Monks, there are these three characteristics,
features,
stamps[1] of a fool.
What three?
Herein, monks, the fool
thinks thoughts,
speaks words,
does deeds that are wrong.
Were it not so,
how would the wise know:
'This is a fool, my good Sir!
This is a depraved man!'?
But inasmuch as the fool
thinks thoughts,
speaks words,
does deeds that are wrong,
therefore the wise know:
'My good sir, this is a fool!
This is a depraved man!'
These are the three characteristics,
features,
stamps of a fool.
§
Monks, there are these three characteristics,
features,
stamps of a wise man.
What three?
Herein, monks, the wise man
thinks thoughts,
speaks words,
does deeds
that are right.
Were it not so,
how would the wise know:
'This is a wise man, my good sir!
This is a good man!'?
But inasmuch as the wise man
thinks thoughts,
speaks words,
does deeds
that are right,
therefore the wise know:
'My good sir, this is a wise man!
This is a good man!'
These are the three characteristics,
features,
stamps of a wise man."
[1] Padāni
