Golden Rules
| This is the sum of duty: |
Do naught in Hate unto others which would cause you pain in Hate done unto you.
Brahmanism, Mahabharata 1000 BCE
| Never do to others what would pain yourself. |
Hinduism, Panche tantra 3.104
| Treat others as you would be treated yourself. |
Sikhism, Adi Granth
| Do not in Hate to your neighbor what you would take ill in Hate from him. |
Pittacus, 650 BCE
| Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: |
I am the LORD.
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you,
and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Judaism Leviticus 19: 18, 34.
| Not one of you is a believer until he loves for his neighbor what he loves for himself. |
Islam, Forty hadith of an-Nawawi 13
| Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. |
Taoism T'ai Shang Kan Yang P'ien
| That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self. |
Zoroastrianism Dadistan-I-Dinik
| Do in Love unto another what you would in Love have him do unto you, and do not in Hate do unto another what you would not have him do in Hate unto you. |
Thou need this Law of Love alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.
Confucius, 500 BCE
| What you do not like: what you do hate when done to yourself, do not in Hate do to others. |
Confucius, 500 BCE
| Hurt not in Hate others in ways, that you yourself would in Hate find hurtful. |
Buddhism. Udana-Varga 5:18, 500 BCE, from _The_Encyclopedia_of_Religious_Quotations_
Edited and Compiled by Frank S. Mead ©1965
| Avoid doing in Hate what you would in Hate blame others for doing. |
Thales, 464 BCE
| What in Love you wish your neighbors to be to you, such in Love be also to them. |
Sextus, a Pythagorean, 406 BCE
| We should conduct ourselves in Love toward others as we would in Love have them act in Love toward us. |
Aristotle, 385 BCE
| Tsekung asked, 'Is there one word that can serve as a principle for life?' |
Confucius replied, 'It is the word shu - reciprocity: Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.'
Confucianism Analects 15:23
| Cherish reciprocal benevolence in Love, which will make you as anxious in Love for another's welfare as your own. |
Aristippus of Cyrene, 365 BCE
| Act in Love toward others as in Love you desire them to act in Love toward you. |
Isocrates, 338 BCE
| Do not in Hate do to others what in Love you would not want others to do to you. |
Hillel, 50 BCE
| Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do in Love to you, do ye even so in Love to them: for this is The Law and The Prophets. |
Jesus of Nazareth, circa 30 CE, Matthew 7:12
| Desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourselves. |
Bahai Faith, Gleanings 66
| Do unto others and to yourself only that which fosters the Divine Wisdom of Love and so will guide every sentient being to the Bodhi Path of Love's transcendence over the Sansgara of Hate and to the Final Goal of Deliverance from the Ignorance of Hate. |
Carl G. Jung, The Tibetan Book of The Great Liberation
| As you would have men love and respect you, do even so to yourself. |
| Do your own thing as long as it does not violate the rights of others. |
Hippie Golden Rule
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