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When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.

Zoroaster

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
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
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
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
With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.
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Enlightenment Mind Path
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
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
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
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
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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Home Men Thinking Wisdom
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
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
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
Let us be such as help the life of the future.
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Future Help Kindness Life
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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Action Better Oneeslf Prayer Religion Science
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
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Action Goodness Thinking Word Yourself
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
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
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

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