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Triads
Part IV
Three counsels of the yellow bird: do not grieve greatly about
what has happened, do not believe what cannot be, and do not
desire what cannot be obtained.
Three things which come on a person without their knowing:
sleep, error, and old age.
Three things which come together: age, error, and grief.
Three things which keep their word faithfully: death,
retribution, and remorse.
Three things the true human obeys: truth, the world which is to
come, and the cock at dawn.
Three things of which not the half is to be believed that is
boasted of them: wealth, understanding, and goodness.
Three things never end: the flowering of charity, the soul, and
perfect love.
Three things necessary for the doing of every act: knowledge,
ability, and desire.
There are three parts to every action: thought, word, and deed.
Three kinds of knowledge : the nature of each thing , the cause
of each thing , the influence of each thing.
There are three springs of knowledge: reason, phenomenon, and
necessity.
Three things must a person do who desires to learn: listen
intently, contemplate intently, and be silent continually.
Three teachers of humankind: one is event, that is from seeing
and hearing; the second is intelligence, and that comes from
reflection and meditation; and the third is genius, individual,
a gift from the Mighty Ones.
Three gains of those who heed the advisements of the Old Ones:
illumination, wisdom, and clarity.
Three instructions not wise to believe: what a person imparts
in support of what is for their own profit and success; what one
imparts with hatred to another; and what a person wise in their
own eyes imparts.
The three qualifications of poetry: endowment of genius;
judgment from experience; happiness of mind.
The three foundations of Judgement: bold design; frequent
practice; frequent mistakes.
The three foundations of learning: seeing much; studying much;
and suffering much.
The three foundations of thought: perspicuity, amplitude, and
preciseness.
The three canons of perspicuity: the word that is necessary, the
quantity that is necessary, the manner that is necessary.
The three canons of amplitude: appropriate thought, variety of
thought, and requisite thought.
There are three things which strengthen the mind and reason:
seeing much, reflecting much, and enduring much.
Three resources of human kind: intelligence, love, and prayer.
There are three foundations of wisdom: discretion in learning,
memory in retaining, and eloquence in telling.
Three concords for wisdom: generosity and wealth, knowledge and
humility, and valor and mercy; and they are neither a true human
nor sage in whom these things are not found in concord.
Three marks of wisdom: simplicity, endeavor, and long-suffering.
Three securities of wisdom: memory, reflection, and custom.
Three qualities which show wisdom: suffering discreetly,
forgiving injury, and seeking knowledge.
Three followers of wisdom: imagination, purpose, and endeavor.
Three demonstrations of wisdom: holding to reason, holding to
imagination, and holding to improvement.
Three synonyms of wisdom: necessity, decency, and expediency.
Three things which obstruct wisdom: pride, covetousness, and
timorousness.
Three special virtues of wisdom: generosity, industry, and
prudence.
Three initiations of wisdom: lawful teaching, effective customs,
and instinctive love.
Three operations of wisdom : taming savagery, spreading peace,
and improving laws.
There are three schools of one who is wise: conscience, reason,
and instruction.
Three things essential for the wise to know: their Gods,
themselves, and the deceits of the world.
Three things that one who is wise attains: prosperity, dignity,
and joy.
Three triumphs of one who is wise: dignity, intuition, and
praise.
Three things of which one who is wise may boast: their
understanding, their handicraft, and that which they have
mastered.
Three plagues of the wise: a young lover, drink, and bad temper.
There are three schools of the foolish person: the punishment of
the law, ill happenings in their life, and a bad position in
the life to come.
Three things which befall the unwise person: failure, disgrace,and sorrow.
Three boasts of a fool: riches, lineage, and dissipation.
Three laughters of a fool: about the good man, about the evil
man, and about what he knows not.
Three things which the fool calls imprudent: to seek knowledge,come what will; to give alms without thinking what is to come;
and to endure for truth and justice without fear of what may
come.
Three things of which everything is capable, and without which
nothing can be: strength of body and mind, knowledge, and love
of intuitive wisdom.
Three things which may not be opposed: nature, necessity, and
decay.
Three who are hard to believe: a wanderer from afar, the reader
of a book in a strange tongue, and they who are older than their
neighbors.
Three who it is wise not to believe: the stranger about their
possessions, and old person praising the day that was of yore,
and one who boasts of their wisdom.
There are three concords which uphold all things: concord of
love and justice, concord of truth and imagination, and concord
of the Shining Ones and occurrence.
Three words of counsel from Teilo the Draoi: know thy power,
know thy wisdom, and know thy time.
Three people who will please the Shining Ones: they who love
everything living with their whole heart, they who love every
beautiful thing with their whole strength, and they who seek
every knowledge with their whole understanding.
Three things between which there is great difference: what is
praised and what is forgiven, what is forgiven and what is
suffered, and what is suffered and what is not punished.
Three things all should strive for: Oneness with their Gods;
peace among neighbors; and just judgment.
Three things which help avert calamity: to worship the Shining
Ones, to be upright, and to exercise fortitude.
Three things by which comes success: Listen humbly , answer
discreetly, and judge kindly.
Three foundations of success: a silent mouth, a careful ear, anda fitting action.
The three foundations of friendship are: Respect and trust;
understanding and forbearance, a loving heart and helpful hands.
Three things for a friend: let them be to you a second self,
let not their misery estrange you from them, do for their memory
what you would do if they yet lived.
The three foundations of happiness: contentment; hope, and
belief.
There are three things which the happy will gain: prosperity,
honor, and ease of conscience.
Three purposes for the return of souls to this world : To
collect into the soul the properties of all being , to acquire
knowledge of all things , to acquire the power to overcome chaos.
Three things which continually grow less : darkness , falsehood,and death.
Three things constantly increase : light , life , and truth.
There are three who judge: the judgment we place upon ourselves, which lingers long; the judgment of our peers, through the
king, which lingers short; and the judgment of the Mighty
Ones , and this swift, sure, and just .
There are three only , whose frenzy is a benefit to their people:
The Warrior on the field of battle, the Dancer in the place
of dance, and the Seeker of Justice where ever they may be.
The three highest causes of the true human are: Truth, honor,
and duty.
The three manifestations of the true human are: civility,
generosity, and compassion.
The three foundations of Spirituality: Hearth as altar, work as worship, and service as sacrament.
