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Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Zoroaster

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
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
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
Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
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Best Deep Desire Goodness Truth Wisdom
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
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
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.
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Alone Goodness Guide Heaven Safety Service Spiritual
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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Devotion Fire Inspirational Passionate
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
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
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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Action Better Oneeslf Prayer Religion Science
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
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Ability Divine Light Men Talent
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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Flow God Himself Return
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life 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

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

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Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

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