Our motto “World Brotherhood and Peace Through Poetry” was conceived from he ideas of the “Golden Rule” and “The Way to Peace and Happiness.”
THE GOLDEN RULE Compiled by UPLI Pres. Benjamin R. Yuzon
Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another (Romans 13:10)
As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. (Luke 7:12)
One should seek for others the happiness one desires for himself. (Buddha, Indian philosopher). Live on good terms with thy fellow citizens. (From Indian books)
What you would not want done to yourself, do not do to others. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher). Interpreted also by his disciple Tshen-Tseu: Love your neighbor as yourself.
The true rule of life is to guard and to do by the things of others as one would do to his own. (Hindu Scripture)
In your dealings with others, harm not that you be not harmed. (Seneca, Roman philosopher).
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Socrates, Greek philosopher).
We should behave toward friends as we would wish friends to behave toward us.(Aristotle, Greek philosopher of Stagira).
Do to no one what you would not want done to you. Tobit 4:15, a book of the Old Testament rejected as apocryphal by the Jews & Protestants but received by the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the life of Tobit, a Jew carried captive to Nineveh, and his son Tobias; written probably in 4th century B.C. by a Jew.
He sought for others the good he desired for himself. Let him pass. (The Egyptian Book of the Dead).
