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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.

Zoroaster

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
ZOROASTER

Business Hungry People Price Wait
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.
ZOROASTER

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.
ZOROASTER

Desire God Greed Taste Treasure World
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.
ZOROASTER

Enemy Friendship Oneself Order War Willing
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.
ZOROASTER

Enemy Gentle Hairs Hands Kindness Perseverance
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.
ZOROASTER

Goodness Hold Kindness Law True
When you are in doubt abstain.
ZOROASTER

Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself
In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
ZOROASTER

Action Doubt Wait
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
ZOROASTER

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

Goodness Happiness Health Joy Yourself
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
ZOROASTER

Order Rivers Soul 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.
ZOROASTER

Enemy Friendship Oneself Order War Willing
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
ZOROASTER

Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
ZOROASTER

Bravery Charity Fortunate Greatness Save Sympathy War
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
ZOROASTER

Action Goodness Thinking Word Yourself
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual

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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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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