The Golden Rule
BUDDHISM
Do not offend others as you would not wish to be offended.
- Udanavarga
CHRISTIANITY
Do unto others all that you would have them do unto you
because this is the sum of the law and of the prophets.
- Gospel of St. Matthew
CONFUCIANISM
Is there a maxim that one ought to follow all his life
? Surely the maxim of peaceful goodness:
What we don't want done to us we should not do to others.
- Analects
HINDUISM
All your duties are included in this: Do nothing to others
that would pain you if it were done to you.
- Mahabharata
ISLAM
Not one of you will be a true believer who does not wish
for his brother the same that he wishes for himself.
- Sunnatt
JUDAISM
What you don't wish for yourself, do not wish for your
neighbour. This is all the law, the rest is only commentary.
- Talmud Shabbat
TAOISM
Hold as your own the gains of your neighbour and as yours
his losses.
- T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien