Catukkanipāta 17

Numbered Discourses 4.17

2. Walking

Prejudice (1st)

1 “Mendicants, there are these four ways of making prejudiced decisions. What four? Making decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. These are the four ways of making prejudiced decisions.

2 If you act against the teaching

out of favoritism, hostility, cowardice, or stupidity,

your fame fades away,

like the moon in the waning fortnight.”