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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

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
When you are in doubt abstain.
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Doubt One Liner Wait Yourself
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
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Ability Divine Light Men Talent
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
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
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Care Greatness Prayer Religious Repeat
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
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
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Best Mindset Possession Reflection
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
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
Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Generosity Happiness Kindness Spiritual
Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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Order Rivers Soul Yourself
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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Advice Happiness Kindness Life Seek
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
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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Action Avoid Bad Doubt Goodness
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
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
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
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Honor Prison Respect Satisfaction Seek
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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Body Corruption Lust Mind
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
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
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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Flow God Himself Return
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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Home Men Thinking Wisdom
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
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
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Divine Mortal Religion Sensual Understand
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
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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Devotion Fire Inspirational Passionate

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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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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