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" 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. "
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The Chinese Classics

James Legge - 1867 - 344 pages
...a man simply on account of 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...
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The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes ...

Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 pages
...partial anticipation of the Golden Rule will be found in the Confucian Analects, Book rv. chap. xxiii. "Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which...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...
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Banquet to His Excellency Anson Burlingame: And His Associates of the ...

1868 - 74 pages
...has come the nearest to our Golden Rule. In the Confucutn Analects we find this remarkable passage: " Tsze-Kung asked, saying, ' Is there one word which...?' 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...
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The Friend, Volume 3

1868 - 416 pages
...to them that despitefully use you.") BOOK. XV. 23. " Is there one word whereby a man may order his life ? The Master said, ' Is not RECIPROCITY such...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...
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The Missionary Magazine, Volume 49

1869 - 498 pages
...duties of the second table of the Law, and gave them an unvarying prominence in hie teach"«• Tse Kung asked, saying : " Is there one word which may serve...do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." We find this same disciple afterwards quoting these words as his rule of conduct, and Confucius expressing...
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China and the Chinese: A General Description of the Country and Its ...

John Livingston Nevius - 1869 - 486 pages
...fully attained to it. The following is his definition of it. When asked by one of his disciples, " Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?" his answer was, " What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others." This one word, for...
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The Chinese Classics: Life and teachings of Confucius

James Legge - 1869 - 358 pages
...for it. The maxim occurs also twice in the Analects. In Book XV. xxiii., Tsze-kung asks if there be one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, and is answered, " Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself do not do...
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Our New Way Round the World

Charles Carleton Coffin - 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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The Chinese Classics, Volume 5, Part 1

James Legge - 1870 - 398 pages
...a man simply on account of his words, nor does he put aside good words because of the man." XXI II. Tsze-kung asked, saying, " Is there one word which...do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." &-,"\i ,_K XXIV. 1. The Master said, u In my dealings with men, whose evil do I blame, whose goodness...
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The Chinese Classics, Volumes 1-2

Ssǔ shu - 1870 - 392 pages
...whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them," and Confucius' Analects, 15 : 23. " Tsze-kung asked, saying, ' Is there one word which...? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do toothers;'" and again, 5th chap., "What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men."...
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