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Benjamin Franklin’s Chart of 13 Virtues

  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 ...