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New Testament Era43 quotes
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. — Jesus · 60Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. — Jesus · 60You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. — Jesus · 60Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. — Jesus · 60Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. — Jesus · 60Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. — Jesus · 60All 43 quotes →Old Testament Era24 quotes
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. — God · 1405 BCThou shalt not steal. — God · 1405 BCThou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. — God · 1405 BCThou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. — God · 1405 BCAnd he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. — Genesis 22:2 · 1405 BCAnd the swine…is unclean to you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you. — God · 1405 BCAll 24 quotes →Classical antiquity3 quotes
What is hateful to you do not to your neighbor: that is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary. — Hillel the Elder · 10If not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Say not, When I have leisure I will study; perchance thou wilt never have leisure. — Hillel the Elder · 10Ancient Egypt1 quote
Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property, do not degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongfully; do not kill, for it will not profit you. — The Teaching for Merikare · 2025 BCAncient World1 quote
Leave all things behind, and come unto me for thy salvation. I will make thee free from this bondage of sins. Fear no more. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCMiddle Ages1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321