Maxim
First, do no harm.
“have two special objects in view with regard to diseases, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”
Hippocratic medicine · Ancient (before 200 BCE)
Translation: public-domain translation (Francis Adams)
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Before we try to help, we can at least refuse to hurt. This simple restraint, shared by healers, monks and moralists, asks us to remember that every living being, like us, fears pain and loves life.
Related expressions
“all breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”
— Mahavira (the Arhats), Acaranga Sutra, Book I, Lecture 4, Lesson 1, tr. Hermann Jacobi (Sacred Books of the East 22)Watch on YouTube: Manu Raval: The Art and Science of Nonviolence (TEDx) ↗Manu Raval discusses ahimsa“All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter.”
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
Score
Moral Rank 72.4 · Evidence E = 16.21
E = ln(1+3.31) + √3.31 + 3·3.31 + 1.5·2 = 16.21