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Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
Let us be such as help the life of the future.
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Future Help Kindness Life
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Action Goodness Thinking Word Yourself
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
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
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
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
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
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
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
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
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
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual

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