 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.  Ethical Addresses - Page 681904Full view - About this book
 | 1925 - 948 pages
...than that laid down by Confucius to his disciple — Chap, xxiii. — Tsze - kuag asked, saying, " Is there one word which may 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... | |
 | 1917 - 882 pages
...any one word which may serve as 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 - 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... | |
 | James Legge - 1861 - 536 pages
...Щ g,, 'grave in self-maintenance.' CONFUCIAN ANALECTS. CHAPTER XXIII. Tsze-kung asked, saying, "le there one word which may serve as a rule of practice...do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." CHAPTER XXIV. 1. The Master said, "In my dealings with men, whose evil do I blame, whose goodness do... | |
 | James Legge - 1893 - 528 pages
...MEN AND JUDGING OF STATEMENTS. CH. XXV.] CONFUCIAN ANALECTS. CHAP. XXIII. Tsze-kung asked, saying, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life 1 ' The Master said, ' Is not RECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not... | |
 | 1862 - 894 pages
...asks if there be one word which 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1863 - 732 pages
...there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?" And Confucius answered: " Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not bad lesson of the sage has not been lost upon his countrymen. The Chinese are noted as a revengeful... | |
 | James Legge - 1867 - 344 pages
...his words, nor does he put aside good words because of the man." XXIII. Tsze-kung asked, saying, " Is there one word which may 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... | |
 | Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 pages
...Golden Rule will be found in the Confucian Analects, Book rv. chap. xxiii. "Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice...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... | |
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