Zoroaster Quotes

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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Action Better Oneeslf Prayer Religion Science
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
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
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
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
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
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
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
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
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
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
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
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Ability Divine Light Men Talent
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Action Goodness Thinking Word Yourself
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
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Anxiety Body Enjoyment Soul Spirit Suffering Worry
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
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Best Mindset Possession Reflection
I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.
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Goodness Heart Men Power Seek Soul Strength Teaching Thinking Unity
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
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
In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
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Action Doubt Wait

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