THESAURUS
golden rule
Christian ethics, Stoicism, a priori truth, altruistic ethics, aretaics, axiom, brocard, canon, casuistry, categorical imperative, code, commandment, comparative ethics, convention, deontology, dictate, dictum, egoistic ethics, empiricism, ethical formalism, ethical philosophy, ethology, ethonomics, eudaemonics, evolutionism, form, formula, general principle, guideline, guiding principle, hedonism, imperative, intuitionism, law, maxim, mitzvah, moral, moral philosophy, norm, ordinance, perfectionism, postulate, principium, principle, proposition, regulation, rubric, rule, self-evident truth, settled principle, situation ethics, standard, tenet, theorem, truism, truth, universal truth, utilitarianism, working principle, working rule
ROGET THESAURUS
golden rule
Precept
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precept, direction, instruction, charge, prescript, prescription, recipe, receipt,
golden rule, maxim, rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation, form, formula, formulary, technicality, canon law, norm, order.
Maxim
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maxim, aphorism, apothegm, apophthegm, dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb, sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis, axiom, theorem, scholium, truism, postulate, first principles, a priori fact, assumption (supposition), reflection, conclusion,
golden rule, principle, principia, profession of faith, settled principle, accepted principle, formula, accepted fact, received truth, wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized maxim, true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying, commonplace saying, aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric, axiomatic, gnomic, as the saying goes, as the saying is, as they say.