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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

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
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
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
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
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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Devotion Fire Inspirational Passionate
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
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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Dangerous Equality Liberty Service
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
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
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 doubt if an action is just, abstain.
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Action Doubt Wait
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
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.
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Goodness Hold Kindness Law True
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Action Goodness Thinking Word Yourself
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Health Joy Yourself
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
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
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
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 good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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Action Better Oneeslf Prayer Religion Science

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