Editing Golden Rule (section)

===Ancient Greece===
The Golden Rule in its prohibitive (negative) form was a common principle in [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[Greek philosophy|philosophy]]. Examples of the general concept include:
* "Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing."&nbsp;– [[Thales]]<ref>[[Diogenes Laërtius]], "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers", I:36</ref> ({{circa|624}} – {{circa|546 BCE}})
* "What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either."&nbsp;– [[Sentences of Sextus|Sextus the Pythagorean]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sent.html|title=The Sentences of Sextus -- The Nag Hammadi Library|website=www.gnosis.org|access-date=16 March 2010|archive-date=11 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011220621/http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sent.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The oldest extant reference to Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era.<ref>[[Sentences of Sextus|''The Sentences of Sextus Article'']]</ref>
* "Ideally, no one should touch my property or tamper with it, unless I have given him some sort of permission, and, if I am sensible I shall treat the property of others with the same respect."&nbsp;– [[Plato]]<ref>Plato, ''[[Laws (dialogue)|Laws]]'', Book XI (Complete Works of Plato, 1997 edited Cooper ISBN 978-0-87220-349-5)</ref> ({{circa|420}} – {{circa|347 BCE}})
* "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you."&nbsp;– [[Isocrates]]<ref>Isocrates, ''Nicocles or the Cyprians''<!--not to be confused with the work ''To Nicocles''-->, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0144%3Aspeech%3D3%3Asection%3D61 Isoc 3.61] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225044007/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0144%3Aspeech%3D3%3Asection%3D61 |date=25 February 2021 }} ([https://archive.org/stream/2139247.0001.001.umich.edu#page/70/mode/2up original text in Greek]); cf. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Isoc.%201.14&lang=original Isoc. 1.14] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225060038/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Isoc.%201.14&lang=original |date=25 February 2021 }}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Isoc.%202.24&lang=original Isoc. 2.24, 38] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225084549/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Isoc.%202.24&lang=original |date=25 February 2021 }}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Isoc.%204.81&lang=original Isoc. 4.81] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225025500/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Isoc.%204.81&lang=original |date=25 February 2021 }}.</ref> (436–338 BCE)
* "It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly." – [[Epicurus]] (341–270 BC) where "justly" refers to "an agreement made in reciprocal association ... against the infliction or suffering of harm."<ref>[http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/princdoc.html "Principal Doctrines 5 and 33"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629092936/http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/princdoc.html |date=29 June 2011 }}, ''[[Principal Doctrines]] by Epicurus'', Translated by [[Robert Drew Hicks]], The Internet Classics Archive, [[MIT]].</ref>