Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
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.
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.
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
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.
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.
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.
Let us be such as help the life of the future.
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
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.
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.
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.
Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.