Formula for Successful Living
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Benjamin Franklin
Virtues
- Temperance
- Eat not to dullness
- Drink not to elevation
- Silence
- Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself
- Avoid trifling conversation
- Order
- Let all your things have their places
- Let each part of your business have its time
- Resolution
- Resolve to perform what you ought
- Perform without fail what you resolve
- Frugality
- Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself
- Waste nothing
- Industry
- Lose no time
- Be always employed in something useful
- Cut off all unnecessary actions
- Sincerity
- Use no hurtful deceit
- Think innocently and justly
- If you speak, speak accordingly
- Justice
- Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty
- Moderation
- Avoid extremes
- Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve
- Cleanliness
- Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation
- Tranquility
- Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable
- Chastity
- Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation
- Humility
- Imitate Jesus and Socrates