<Li> "Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing ."--Thales (c. 624 BC--c. 546 BC) </Li> <Li> "What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either ."--Sextus the Pythagorean . The oldest extant reference to Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era . </Li> <Li> "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you ."--Isocrates (436--338 BC) </Li> <P> The Pahlavi Texts of Zoroastrianism (c. 300 BC--1000 AD) were an early source for the Golden Rule: "That nature alone is good which refrains from doing to another whatsoever is not good for itself ." Dadisten - I - dinik, 94, 5, and "Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others ." Shayast - na - Shayast 13: 29 </P>

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