“Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Source: The Analects
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Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
Stobaeus Ancient Greek anthologist
iii. 3. 52
Quotes by and about Diogenes
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=EcKZ8bbMLDMC&q=%22It+is+not+fair+to+ask+of+others+what+you+are+not+willing+to+do+yourself%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000366
15 June 1946
My Day (1935–1962)
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
Express Yourself Fully (page 8)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)
“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."”
Stephen King book The Stand
The Stand (Uncut), Preface (part 2)
The Stand (1978)
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Variant: Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask 'What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask what do you love?
Source: The Bronze Horseman (2001)
“Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Variant: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Source: The Analects, Other chapters, Chapter XVː23
“Do yourself what you wish others to do.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 1021