Rarely use venery(sex) but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation. Avoid extremes forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. Lose no time be always employ’d in something useful cut off all unnecessary actions. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself i.e., waste nothing. Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve. Let all your things have their places let each part of your business have its time. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation. Eat not to dullness drink not to elevation. As I recall, we did this same practice for two weeks, making marks on a spreadsheet, similar to Franklin’s, to track our progress. At the age of 20, he was determined to improve his character, so he identified 13 virtues that he would practice, keeping track of his successes and failures. I began collecting “virtues” at the age of 13, when a teacher showed us Ben Franklin’s Virtues Experiment.
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