- 1. TEMPERANCE.
- Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
- 2. SILENCE.
- Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
- 3. ORDER.
- Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
- 4. RESOLUTION.
- Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
- 5. FRUGALITY.
- Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i. e., waste nothing.
- 6. INDUSTRY.
- Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
- 7. SINCERITY.
- Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
- 8. JUSTICE.
- Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
- 9. MODERATION.
- Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
- 10. CLEANLINESS.
- Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
- 11. TRANQUILLITY.
- Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
- 12. CHASTITY.
- Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
- 13. HUMILITY.
- Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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Ben Franklin's 13 Perfect Virtues
These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:
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