The Greatest DenominatorGreatest Denominator

Uttaradhyayana 25.24-25

JainismUttaradhyayana 25.24-25
"He who does not speak untruth from anger or for fun, from greed or from fear, him we call a Brâhmana. "He who does not take anything that is not given him, be it sentient or not sentient, small or large, him we call a Brâhmana.

The same idea in other traditions


ConfucianismAnalects 2.17
The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;—this is knowledge."
HinduismMundaka Upanishad 3.1.6
The true prevails, not the untrue; by the true the path is laid out, the way of the gods (devayânah), on which the old sages, satisfied in their desires, proceed to where there is that highest place of the True One.
SufismBustan, ch. 1
“Cherish the poor, and seek not thine own comfort. The shepherd should not sleep while the wolf is among the sheep. Protect the needy, for a king wears his crown for the sake of his subjects. The people are as the root and the king as the tree; and the tree, O son, gains strength from the root. He should not oppress the people who has fear of injury to his kingdom. Seek not plenteousness in that land where the people are afflicted by the king. Fear them that are proud and them that fear not God.”