Golden Rules

 

BRAHMANISM: "This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you."
(Mahabharata 5,1517)

CHRISTIANITY: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
(Jesus, Mt 7:12)

CONFUCIANISM: "Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you."
(Analects 15,23)

BUDDHISM: "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful."
(Udana-Varga 5,18)

ISLAM: "No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself."
(Azizullah - Hadith 150)

JAIN: "A man should treat all creatures in the world as he himself would like to be treated."
(Wisdom of the Living Religions, #69 - I:II:33)

JUDAISM: "What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbor: that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it."
(Rabbi Hillel, Tractate Shabbath (Folio 31a) )

TAOISM: "Regard your neighbor's gains as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss."
(T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien)

ZOROASTRIANISM: "That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another hatsoever is not good for itself.
(Dadistan-i-dinik 94-5)"

 

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