Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What…
1Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.'
The notes printed with this passage in Chinese editions, kept in Chinese, for readers who come to the text that way.
一言：一个字。言，字。
恕：推己及人，即“己所不欲，勿施于人”。