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Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

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Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Action Goodness Thinking Word 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
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
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Action Doubt 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
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
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
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
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
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
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
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
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
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
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

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