Zoroaster on enemy
Zoroaster45 quotes“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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One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
ZoroasterZoroaster War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
ZoroasterZoroaster 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.
ZoroasterZoroaster When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
ZoroasterZoroaster 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.
ZoroasterZoroaster 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.
ZoroasterZoroaster 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.
ZoroasterZoroaster Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
ZoroasterZoroaster Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
ZoroasterZoroaster Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
ZoroasterZoroaster Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
ZoroasterZoroaster Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
ZoroasterZoroaster Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
ZoroasterZoroaster Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
ZoroasterZoroaster Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
ZoroasterZoroaster Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm.
Sun TzuSun Tzu The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama Be where your enemy is not.
Sun TzuSun Tzu The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.
Sun TzuSun Tzu If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
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