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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A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
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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.
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Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
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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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Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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When you are in doubt abstain.
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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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One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one’s own heart.
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War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
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Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
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You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.
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A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
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Let us be such as help the life of the future.
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Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
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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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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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Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
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Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
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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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One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
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For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
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Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.
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By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
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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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