Strange & Unusual Sayings

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Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Deal with the small as with the large.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Deal with the small as with the large.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Keep your mouth shut, guard your senses, and you will be free from trouble. Open your mouth, always be busy, and you will be beyond hope.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Keep your mouth shut, guard your senses, and you will be free from trouble. Open your mouth, always be busy, and you will be beyond hope.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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And when these two spirits came together, they created life and non-life, and how at the end the worst existence shall be for the wicked, but the Best Mind for the righteous.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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And when these two spirits came together, they created life and non-life, and how at the end the worst existence shall be for the wicked, but the Best Mind for the righteous.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Therefore, you who are living, make known these doctrines to those who are striving for the Lie, so that they may not bring about a second destruction for themselves.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Therefore, you who are living, make known these doctrines to those who are striving for the Lie, so that they may not bring about a second destruction for themselves.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Whosoever, O Mazda, by his thoughts, words, and deeds makes a sacrifice to Thee, he shall be granted the best existence.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Whosoever, O Mazda, by his thoughts, words, and deeds makes a sacrifice to Thee, he shall be granted the best existence.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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He who chooses the Lie, O Mazda, for him shall be woe at the end.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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He who chooses the Lie, O Mazda, for him shall be woe at the end.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Show me, O Mazda, through Good Mind, how to fulfill this teaching, for which I ask Thee, and through Thy Righteousness, to approach Thee, O Ahura, and to offer praise to Thee.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Show me, O Mazda, through Good Mind, how to fulfill this teaching, for which I ask Thee, and through Thy Righteousness, to approach Thee, O Ahura, and to offer praise to Thee.

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Tell me truly, O Ahura, who upholds the earth below and the heavens from falling? Who made the waters and the plants? Who yoked swiftness to the winds and clouds? Who is the creator of Good Thought, O Mazda?

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Tell me truly, O Ahura, who upholds the earth below and the heavens from falling? Who made the waters and the plants? Who yoked swiftness to the winds and clouds? Who is the creator of Good Thought, O Mazda?

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Who created light and darkness? Who created sleep and waking?

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Who created light and darkness? Who created sleep and waking?

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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