 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 564 pages
...from hie study of man's mental constitution. Several times he gave that rule in express words : — ' What you do not like when done to yourself do not do to others.' The peculiar nature of the Chínete language enabled him to express this rule by one character,... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others. " In the way of the superior man there are four things, to none of which have I as yet attained.... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others. 4. "In the way of the superior man there are four things, to not one of which have I as... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 402 pages
...there is that which the sage does not know." The best thing in this book has been often quoted : " What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." If we would understand the natural difference between Confucius and Jesus, let us take... | |
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...the superior man ? " We have here the golden rule in its negative form expressly propounded : — " What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." But in the paragraph which follows we have the rule virtually in its positive form. Confucius... | |
 | Baptists - 1869 - 498 pages
...principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." " Fan-che asked about benevolence, the Master said : It is to love all men." On another... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Religion and science - 1870 - 80 pages
...again what we value most in our own religion. I shall quote but one saying of the Chinese sage :3 ' What you do not like when done to yourself, do not...which existed before heaven and earth. How calm it is ! how free ! It lives alone, it changes not. It moves everywhere, but it never suffers. We may look... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Religion - 1873 - 428 pages
...again what we value most in our own religion. I shall quote but one saying of the Chinese sage1: ' What you do not like when done to yourself, do not...existed before heaven and earth. 'How calm it is! how free! ' It lives alone, it changes not.'^r; • •'•'.V. --'*'. ff.\ Dr. Legge's Life and Teachings... | |
 | Ross Winans - Christianity - 1873 - 496 pages
...principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others : serve my father as I would require my son to serve me : serve my elder brother as I would... | |
 | Aaron Goodrich - America - 1874 - 426 pages
...beautiful and comprehensive, was thus laid down by Confucius five hundred years before the birth of Christ: "What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." " In the way of the superior man there are four things, to none of which have I as yet... | |
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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others. 
