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Reciprocity can serve as a rule for life: do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself
Drawn from what Confucius said
What Confucius actually said
- Confucius Chinese teacher and thinker (traditionally dated 551 to 479 BCE)
Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Where this was said
↗The Analects, as recorded by his disciples (tr. James Legge, 1861)gutenberg.org
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