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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.

Zoroaster

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
ZOROASTER

Action Doubt Wait
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
ZOROASTER

Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one’s own heart.
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Heart Heaven Himself Meditation Mindset Need Oneself Purity Travel
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.
ZOROASTER

Alone Goodness Guide Heaven Safety Service Spiritual
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
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Bed Better Fools Reveal Spirit Vision Word
Let us be such as help the life of the future.
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Future Help Kindness Life
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
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Advice Knife Man Material Need Wisdom
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
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Care Greatness Prayer Religious Repeat
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
When you are in doubt abstain.
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Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
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Best Mindset Possession Reflection
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Oneself Order War Willing
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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Flow God Himself Return
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself

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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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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