"I yearn to know the truth, O Ahura Mazda, and to live according to it."

"The wise choose the best, the unwise choose the worst."

"A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice."

"I am aware of my weakness, grant me the affection which a lover in the radiance of righteousness."

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