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
| Henry Noel Shore baron Teignmouth, Henry N. Shore - 1881 - 550 pages
...filial piety stands first in the category of human duties, and who, when asked by his disciples, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life,' answered, ' What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ; ' a nation which possesses... | |
| Henry Noel Shore baron Teignmouth, Henry N. Shore - 1881 - 604 pages
...filial piety stands first in the category of human duties, and who, when asked by his disciples, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life,' answered, ' What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ; ' a nation which possesses... | |
| Thomas Laurie - 1881 - 638 pages
...exalted an idea of this that he held that few even of the ancients attained to it. " Tsz kung asked : ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all of one's life ?' The master said: 'Is not shu'such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do... | |
| Thomas Laurie - 1881 - 630 pages
...word which may serve as a rule of practice :for all of one's life ?' The master said: 'Is not shu2such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.1 " This is the nearest approximation ever made by man to the rule of Christ, though it is negative... | |
| Edwin Dwight Babbitt - 1881 - 394 pages
...been given repeatedly before and after his day. I will quote a very few precepts as follows : — " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Confucius, born 551 BC " Do good to all, both the evil and the good, even your enemies." Chrisna, several... | |
| Augustus Ward Loomis - 1882 - 444 pages
...to do to men." The Master said, " Tsze, you have not attained to that." 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 SUPERIOR MAN—THE BEAU IDEAL OF VIRTUE. Tsze-Kung asked what constituted the superior man. The Master... | |
| 1882 - 564 pages
...When asked if there were one word which would serve as a rule of conduct for all life, he replied : "Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." A similar story is related in the Talmud respecting the celebrated Rabbi Hille1. -42 Mirror. FEMALE... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1882 - 896 pages
...remarkable passages of the Four Books are the following : Replying to the question of Tsz'-kung, " Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all of one's life?" Confucius said: "Is not shu ('reciprocity') such a word ? What you do not want done... | |
| Charles De Berard Mills - 1882 - 282 pages
...superior man's) actions are such as he would have rendered to himself again. 597. Chinese (Lao Tsze). What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. 598. When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. 599.... | |
| Citizen of Massachusetts, Alfred Ellingwood Giles - 1882 - 80 pages
...of Justice, harmonize well with Confucius's Reciprocity, or Rule of Practice for all one's life : " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ; " and with the precept, " Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you even so do ye also unto... | |
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