Anra Mainyu is very clever, nor could it be anything else, because, being evil par excellence in its totality, if it had a little bit of wisdom, it w… - Italo Pizzi

The pârsi has not accepted any words from foreign languages and differs little from the language of Firdusi, of the greatest Persian epic poet who lived around the thousand of the vernacular era, who can be considered as the first who with an immortal work, as Dante did for the Italians, has honored the language of Persia of his From then on the Persian went more and more corrupting with accepting Arabic words; and nowadays in the works of modern Persian writers it is nothing but a jargon, of which two thirds are Arabic, while the language has been preserved much purer in the countryside and in the villages, where it is not uncommon to meet some good farmer who in his pure Persian dialect, which by some was 17.)

Perhaps the hot fantasy of the Iranians in some prince of Semitic, cruel and tyrannical lineage, who infested them, saw in it the living and visible image of the evil infernal Drugia procreated by Anra.

The morality taught by the 'Avesta', beyond and above its theological, dogmatic, ritual precepts, is still a very high and pure morality that rightly places Zoroastrianism among the most elected religions in the world. The same threefold precept of never sinning in thoughts, in works, in words, which is also among the precepts of Christianity, encloses in its rigidity and summarizes every other precept that is intended to guide man down here. The greatest virtues that, moreover, were recommended not also by the 'Avesta', but also by the law and custom common to all the Iranians, were justice, charity, generosity, piety, the horror of lying.