6.2.05

The Golden Rule

"Hurt not others with that which pains yourself." -- Buddhism (Udanavarga, v.18)

"Treat others as you would like them to treat you." -- Christianity (Luke 6:31)

"Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you." -- Confucianism (Analects, Book xii)

"Let not any man do unto another any act that he wisheth not done to himself by others, knowing it to be painful to himself." -- Hinduism (Mahabharata, Shanti Parva, cclx.21)

"No man is a true believer unless he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself." -- Islam (Hadith, Muslim, Imam 71-72)

"What is hateful to yourself do not do to your fellow man. That is the whole of the Torah." -- Judaism (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 31a)

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