[A collection of sentences, in prose and verse, on fifty-eight different subjects, arranged in chapters alternately in praise and blame. Compiled by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Muqaddasī, from two of the works of al-Thaʿālibī, namely, al-Laṭāʾif wa-al-ẓarāʾif and al-Yawāqīt fī baʿḍ al-mawāqīt.].