Tao Te Ching
Avesta
By Zarathushtra
The primary Zoroastrian collection of religious texts, the Avesta includes many different texts from many different times and includes many words ascribed to Zoroaster. It includes a detailed moral code based on basically the Golden Rule but counts the worst sin of all to be unbelief. It emphasized free will and a human basic goodness at a time when most of Europe considered humans as sinful worms and gave us concepts of Satan, paradise/purgatory/hell, angels, magic, Christmas, the Last Judgment, and the Lord of Light. The surviving texts of the Avesta, as they exist today, derive from a single master copy produced by Sasanian Empire-era (224–651 CE) derived from much more ancient oral accounts
Quotes from Avesta
“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”
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“A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for […] To effect this I shall work now and ever more.”
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“For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.”
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“Man’s duty is three-fold: To make him who is an enemy a friend, to make him who is wicked righteous; and to make him who is ignorant learned.”
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“Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.”
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“Since, O Mazda, from the beginning, Thou didst create soul and body […] you wished that everyone should choose his or her own faith and path freely .”
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“That nature alone is good which shall not do unto another whatever is not not good unto itself.”
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