Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues

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Benjamin Franklin's 13 Virtues in a nice list.The first seven "personal" virtues relate to your attitudes toward activities and their challenges. Good personal character traits will better your chances of success in achieving your goals.The latter six social virtues that Franklin stated concern your attitudes toward people with whom you have dealings. Good social character traits result in other people wanting to do business with you or to have relationships with you.

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1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
3. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
4. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
5. Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
6. Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
7. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
8. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
9. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
10. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
11. 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.
12. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.