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Read & copy the quotation
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
- Date
- James Legge translation
- English wording
- James Legge — Translator · from Classical Chinese
Meaning of “What you do not want done to yourself,…”
A simple test for conduct is to consider whether we would accept the same treatment if our positions were reversed.
Where does it come from?
The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book XV gives the maxim as a concise rule for conduct toward others.
