Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. The Chinese Classics - Page 109by James Legge - 1893Full view - About this book
| England - 1925 - 948 pages
...serve as a rule of practice for all one's life t " The Master said : " Is not Eeciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." 530 THE BULL-EOAEEE. BY EDMUND VALE. PERTFOBDYCE used to be remarkable for the daring of its fishermen.... | |
| Literature - 1917 - 882 pages
...a rule of action for the whole of one's life?" The master replied, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others." The Old and the New Testament, Pythagoras and Confucius, desiring to combine the ideal with the practicable,... | |
| Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 714 pages
...might be multiplied to an almost endless extent. Even the golden rule of Confucius is negative, — " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others " One might easily conceive the Occident and the Orient to be at the opposite poles of some mysterious... | |
| 1862 - 894 pages
...may serve aa a rnle of practice for.' one's life, and is answered, ' Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.' The same disciple appears in Book v. 11, telling Confucius that he was practising the lesson. He says, 'What I do not wish men to do to... | |
| 1862 - 970 pages
...place him in the chief rank of Chinese sages. which we meet with it Confucius is represented as saying, "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others;" the second is when one of his disciples tells him, "What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not... | |
| James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ? " iThe Master said, "Is not EECIPEOCITT such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others/' XXIV. 1. The Master said, "In my writing or speaking of men, whose evil do I blame, whose goodness... | |
| Samuel Cox - Bible - 1867 - 348 pages
...serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?' The Master said, ' Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.' " The same rule is given in another form in Book V. Chap. id. of the Analects. The other phrases I have put into... | |
| China - 1868 - 74 pages
...serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?' The Master said,' Is not Reciprocity such a word 2 What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.'" Such are the men who are now, after centuries of isolation, asking to be received into the great fraternity... | |
| Society of Friends - 1868 - 416 pages
...there one word whereby a man may order his life ? The Master said, ' Is not RECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.'" (Compare with, "Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.") BOOK XVI. CH. 2. " When... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - Geography - 1869 - 558 pages
...benevolence, righteousness, propriety, knowledge, and faith. This moral precept inculcated by him, " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others," is the negative side of the teachings of the Saviour, in the Sermon on the Mount, delivered nearly... | |
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