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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.

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
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
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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Action Better Oneeslf Prayer Religion Science
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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Business Hungry People Price Wait
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
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
Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
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Best Deep Desire Goodness Truth Wisdom
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
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Action Goodness Thinking Word Yourself
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
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Best Mindset Possession Reflection
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
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
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
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
By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
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Diversity Hero Hope Love Soul Yourself

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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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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