35 Quotes by Zoroaster

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.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

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.

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

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

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.

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.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

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.