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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, that is, 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,
And,
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.
--Benjamin Franklin’s habitudes
From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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