I’ve categorized this one — “Be kind to all creatures. This is the true religion” — as “fakeish” because I haven’t been able to find anything in the scriptures that closely matches it. I have a vague recollection of having seen something close to this in a Hindu/Vedic text, but I haven’t been able to find that either. Perhaps I’m misremembering.
The closest I’ve been able to find in a Buddhist source is something in a text, “The Substance of the Vinaya,” that was translated fairly early on (perhaps 70 CE) into Chinese. Here’s Samuel Beal’s 1884 account from his …
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