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Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
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Action Doubt Wait
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
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Anxiety Body Enjoyment Soul Spirit Suffering Worry
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
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Bravery Charity Fortunate Greatness Save Sympathy War
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your ‘joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
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Growth Joy Life Lose Old Weight
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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Devotion Fire Inspirational Passionate
You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.
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Love Mean Peace War
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
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Enemy Gentle Hairs Hands Kindness Perseverance
He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!
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Help Power Truth Value Word
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
When you are in doubt abstain.
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Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

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