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Golden Rule - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The Golden Rule and the Silver Rule
The Golden Rule or ethic of reciprocity is a maxim, ethical code or morality that essentially states either of the following: (Positive form of Golden Rule): One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.[1] (Negative form of Golden Rule): One should not…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The illusion of virtue
...as La Rochefoucauld in the first edition of his "Sentences and Moral Maxims" has expressed it: "What the world calls virtue is ordinarily but a phantom created by the passions, and to which we give a good name in order to do whatever we please with impunity."