The Golden Rule (It's true in all faiths.)

BRAHMANISM: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. Mahabharata 5:1517

BUDDHISM: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Udana-Varga 5:18

CHRISTIANITY: 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. Matthew 7:12

CONFUCIANISM: Surely it is the maxim of lovingkindness: Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you. Analects 15:23

ISLAM: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah

JUDAISM: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 31a

TAOISM: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien

ZOROASTRIANISM: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself. Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5 –courtesy of Elizabeth Pool

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well—let 'em wait. (To an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.") –Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. February 12, 1789

A dying man can do nothing easy. –Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, d. April 17, 1790

Now I shall go to sleep. Good night. –Lord George Byron, English writer, d. April 19, 1824

Is it the Fourth? –Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. president, d. July 4, 1826

Thomas Jefferson—still survives . . . (Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day.) –John Adams, 2nd U.S. president, d. July 4, 1826

Friends, applaud. The comedy is finished. –Ludwig van Beethoven, German-Austrian composer, d. March 26, 1827

Moose . . . Indian . . . –Henry David Thoreau, American writer, d. May 6, 1862

Go on, get out—last words are for fools who haven't said enough. (To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.) –Karl Marx, German political philosopher, d. March 14, 1883

Is it not meningitis? –Louisa M. Alcott, American writer, d. March 6, 1888

How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden? –P. T. Barnum, American entrepreneur, d. April 7, 1891

Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark. –O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), American writer, d. June 4, 1910

Get my swan costume ready. –Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, d. January 23, 1931

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy. –Ethel Barrymore, American actress, d. June 18, 1959

I'm bored with it all. (Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.) –Winston Churchill, English statesman, d. January 24, 1965

You be good. You'll be in tomorrow. I love you. –Alex, highly intelligent African Gray parrot, d. September 6, 2007

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