Imam Al-Sadiq

98. The paucity of patience is a scandal.
100. Generosity is cleverness.
101. Meanness is heedlessness.
102. Whoever neglects three (things) is deprived:
To request the favor of the generous person, to make friends with the scholar and to attract the
ruler.
103. Three (things) cause affection: Religion, modesty, and generosity.
104. Whoever gets rid of evil gets glory; whoever gets rid of haughtiness gets dignity, and
whoever gets rid of miserliness gets honor.
105. Three (things) cause hatred: hypocrisy, self admiration, and oppression.
106. Whoever has not a trait of three (traits) is not regarded as noble:
Whoever has no intellect to make him good, or riches to help him, or a tribe to support him.
107. Three (things) abase the person: envy, slander, and recklessness.
108. Three (things) are not known but during three situations: The meek (person) is not
known but during anger, nor is the brave (person) known but during war, nor is the brother
known but during need.
109. Whoever has three (traits) is a hypocrite even if he prays or fasts: when he speaks, he
tells lies, when he promises, he breaks (his promise), and when he is trusted, he betrays.
110. Beware of three (persons) of men: The traitor, the oppressor, and the slanderer, because
he who betrays (his friend) for you will betray you, whoever oppresses (his friend) for you
will oppress you, and whoever slanders for you will slander against you.
111. The trusty (person) is not trusty but when he is trusted with three (things) and repays
them: Properties, women, and children. If he keeps two (of them) and loses one, then he is not
trusty.
112. Do not ask the advice of the foolish (person); do not seek the help of the liar, and do not
trust the affection of the bored (person), because the liar approaches the far (things) for you
and distances the close (things) for you; the foolish (person) does his best but does not reach
what he wants and whatever you have confidence in the bored (person), he betrays you and
whatever you send him gifts, he abandons you.
113. Four (things) are not full of four (things):
a land of rain; an eye of looking; a female of male, and a scholar of knowledge.
114. Four (things) make (the person) grow old before the time of old age: Eating cured meat;
sitting on moistness, going up with stairs, and having sexual intercourse with the old women.
115. Women are three (Kinds): One is for you; one is for you and against you, and one is
against you not for you: As for the woman who is for you is the virgin woman, as for she who
is for you and against you is the deflowered (woman), and as for she who is against you is al-
Mutbi' who has a child from other than you.
116. Whoever has three (traits) is a master: Suppressing anger; forgiving the person who
misbehaves, and linking with the self and property.
117. Eloquence is in three (things): To approach the meaning of the purpose, to avoid
wordiness, and to prove the many (things) with the few (things).
118. Toil is in three (things): In changing the brothers; turning away (from each other), and
spying about what does not mean (you).