Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues

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Personal• Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.• 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; i.e., waste nothing.• Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries

so much as you think they deserve.• Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in

something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.• Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes,

or habitation.• Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents

common or unavoidable.

Social•Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.•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.•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.

Fourteen virtues by Marcus Aurelius• Auctoritas - "Spiritual Authority" - The sense of one's

social standing, built up through experience, Pietas, and Industria.

• Comitas - "Humour" - Ease of manner, courtesy, openness, and friendliness.

• Clementia - "Mercy" - Mildness and gentleness. • Dignitas - "Dignity" - A sense of self-worth, personal

pride. • Firmitas - "Tenacity" - Strength of mind, the ability to

stick to one's purpose. • Frugalitas - "Frugalness" - Economy and simplicity of

style, without being miserly.

•Gravitas - "Gravity" - A sense of the importance of the matter at hand, responsibility and earnestness. •Honestas - "Respectability" - The image that one presents as a respectable member of society. •Humanitas - "Humanity" - Refinement, civilization, learning, and being cultured. •Industria - "Industriousness" - Hard work. •Pietas - "Dutifulness" - More than religious piety; a respect for the natural order socially, politically, and religiously. Includes the ideas of patriotism and devotion to others.

• Prudentia - "Prudence" - Foresight, wisdom, and personal discretion.

• Salubritas - "Wholesomeness" - Health and cleanliness.

• Severitas - "Sternness" - Gravity, self-control.

• Veritas - "Truthfulness" - Honesty in dealing with others.

SimilaritiesFrugalitas - "Frugalness" - Economy and simplicity of style, without being miserly. (M.Aurelius)Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. (B.Franklin)

Industria - "Industriousness" - Hard work.(M.Aurelius) Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. (B.Franklin)

Salubritas - "Wholesomeness" – Health and cleanliness.(M.Aurelius) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.(B.Franklin)

SimilaritiesSeveritas - "Sternness" - Gravity, self-control. (M.Aurelius). "Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.“ (B.Franklin)

"Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.“ (B.Franklin)If you can see sharp then look and judge wisely. (M.Aurelius)

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. (R. Emerson)

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. (M. Aurelius)

Let no a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. (R. Emerson)

Dignitas - "Dignity" - A sense of self-worth, personal pride.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.(r.Emerson)

Veritas - "Truthfulness" - Honesty in dealing with others. (M. Aurelius)

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