Benjamin Franklin’s Chart of 13 Virtues 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 employed 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 extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. CLEANLINESS: Tolerate ...
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