Great Throughts Treasury

"They curse themselves, they curse others."

"They deceive the uninformed."

"They deceive their father and their superiors."

"They delight in fraud, they delight in robbery, they make raids and commit depredations to get rich."

"They destroy the crops and fields of others."

"They disobey and dislike the commands of their superiors."

"They disobey the instructions of father and mother."

"They disparage others that achieve merit."

"They disregard their seniors and rebel against those whom they serve."

"They do many clandestine and wrong deeds."

"They employ drugs to kill trees."

"They endanger others to save themselves."

"They even call on bright spirits to make them witness their degrading deeds."

"They give away evil in marriage and they sell wrongs."

"They harass and tyrannize over their subordinates."

"They harbor and keep a treacherous heart."

"They hold in contempt the lives of Heaven's people."

"They impede and obstruct the professions and crafts."

"They impoverish others for their own gain."

"They indulge in comforts and enjoyments without measure."

"They invent and circulate vile talk, traducing and slandering innocent men."

"They kill the baby and cause abortion of the unborn."

"They make and do what is not useful."

"They make light of the spirit of their ancestor."

"They malign the righteous and dispossess the wise."

"They misdirect the water and light fires to destroy the people's homes."

"They molest orphans and wrong widows."

"They murder men to take their property, or have them ousted to take their places."

"They oppress their subordinates and appropriate their merit."

"They patronize the unscrupulous and do harm to the inoffensive."

"They point and earth to make them witnesses of their mean thoughts."

"They rail at spirits and claim to be right themselves."

"They reject a good cause and espouse a wrong cause, spurning what is near, longing for the distant."

"They rely on their wives' and other women's gossip."

"They resist and provoke father and elders."

"They reward and punish without justice."

"They ridicule and scorn reason and virtue."

"They scatter and waste the five cereals."

"They sell and buy vainglory."

"They shoot the flying, chase the running, expose the hiding, surprise nestlings, close up entrance holes, upset nests, injure the pregnant, and break the egg."

"They shorten the foot, they narrow the measure, they lighten the scales, they reduce the peck."

"They slander others, yet themselves feign honesty."

"They slander their fellow-students."

"They slay the yielding and slaughter those who have surrendered."

"They spit at falling stars and point at the many-colored rainbow."

"They spoil a worker's utensils to hamper his efficiency."

"They step over the well and they step over the hearth. They jump over the food and jump over a person."

"They stir up party strife and law suits."

"They take up the new and forget the old."

"They terrify and threaten to overawe others."