Aṇguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāta
XIV. Yodh-ā-jīva Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
or
More-Numbered Suttas
III. The Book of the Threes
XIV. The Fighting-Man
Sutta 133
Mitta Suttaṃ
The Friend
Translated from the Pali by
F.L. Woodward, M.A.
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Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, he who is blessed with three qualities
should be followed as a friend.
What three?
Herein a monk gives what is hard to give,
does what is hard to do,
bears what is hard to bear.
If he have these three qualities
he should be followed as a friend."
