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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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Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
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
By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
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Diversity Hero Hope Love Soul Yourself
In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.
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Beginning Evil Goodness Spirit
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
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Ability Divine Light Men Talent
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
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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Action Better Oneeslf Prayer Religion Science
When you are in doubt abstain.
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Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself
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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Desire God Greed Taste Treasure World
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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Home Men Thinking Wisdom
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
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
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
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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Flow God Himself Return

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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