Maxim
Treat others as you would wish to be treated.
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucianism · Ancient (before 200 BCE)
Translation: public-domain translation (Legge)
Watch on YouTube: Brené Brown on Empathy ↗Brené Brown discusses empathy, the heart of this rule
Perhaps the most widely shared rule for living. Long before these traditions could read one another, each arrived at the same quiet test: before you act, put yourself in the other person's place.
Related expressions
“That which is hateful to you do not do to another; that is the entire Torah, and the rest is its interpretation.”
Watch on YouTube: Charter for Compassion | Karen Armstrong ↗Karen Armstrong discusses this idea“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
Watch on YouTube: BibleProject: The Sermon on the Mount ↗BibleProject on the Sermon on the Mount“And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.”
“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.”
“None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself.”
“Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
“So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.”
Score
Moral Rank 88.3 · Evidence E = 19.76
E = ln(1+5.82) + √4.60 + 3·3.23 + 1.5·4 = 19.76