Catukkanipāta 18

Numbered Discourses 4.18

2. Walking

Prejudice (2nd)

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

2 If you don’t act against the teaching

out of favoritism, hostility, cowardice, and stupidity,

your fame swells,

like the moon in the waxing fortnight.”