← Aṅguttara NikāyaAN4.3Numbered Discourses 4.3SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Numbered Discourses 4.31. At Wares VillageBroken (1st)“When a foolish, incompetent untrue person has four qualities they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much wickedness.What four?Without examining or scrutinizing, they praise those deserving of criticism,and they criticize those deserving of praise.They arouse faith in things that are dubious,and they don’t arouse faith in things that are inspiring.When a foolish, incompetent untrue person has these four qualities they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much wickedness.When an astute, competent true person has four qualities they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don’t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much merit.What four?After examining and scrutinizing, they criticize those deserving of criticism,and they praise those deserving of praise.They don’t arouse faith in things that are dubious,and they do arouse faith in things that are inspiring.When an astute, competent true person has these four qualities they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don’t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much merit.When you praise someone worthy of criticism,or criticize someone worthy of praise,you choose a losing hand with your own mouth:you’ll never find happiness that way.A losing hand at dice is a trivial thing,if all you lose is your moneyand all you own, even yourself.What’s a really terrible handis to hate the holy ones.For a hundred thousand times a hundred million,times five hundred and thirty-six timesa thousand times ten million yearsa slanderer of noble ones goes to hell,having aimed bad words and thoughts at them.”