32. Avoidance of Injuring Others

Even if injuring others would bring princely riches,
the pure in heart would still avoid it.

It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others,
even when they themselves have been hatefully injured.

Harming others, even enemies who harmed you unprovoked,
surely brings incessant sorrow.

If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both,
Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame.

What good is a man's knowledge unless it prompts him
to prevent the pain of others as if it were his own pain?

Actions that are known to harm oneself
should never be inflicted upon others. 

The highest principle is this: never knowingly
harm anyone at any time in any way.

Why does he who knows what injury to his own life is like
inflict injury upon other living human beings?

If a man visits sorrow on another in the morning,
sorrow will visit him unbidden in the afternoon.

All suffering recoils on the wrongdoer himself. Thus, those
desiring not to suffer refrain from causing others pain.