The Greatest DenominatorGreatest Denominator

Dhammapada 50

BuddhismDhammapada 50
Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.

Na paresaṁ vilomāni, na paresaṁ katākataṁ; Attanova avekkheyya, katāni akatāni ca.

The same idea in other traditions


SikhismSGGS Ang 62
Call everyone exalted; no one seems lowly. The One Lord has fashioned the vessels, and His One Light pervades the three worlds.
ConfucianismAnalects 15.15
The Master said, "He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment."
SufismHafiz, Ode 17 (Bell)
Lay not reproach at the drunkard’s door / Oh Fanatic, thou that art pure of soul; / Not thine on the page of life to enrol / The faults of others! Or less or more / I have swerved from my path—keep thou to thine own! / For every man when he reaches the goal / Shall reap the harvest his hands have sown. …