Use now and then a little
Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight,
or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to
leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.
Benjamin
Franklin
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Here’s the list of
Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues:
1. Temperance
Eat
not to dullness and 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. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they
deserve.
10.
Cleanliness: Tolerate
no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation.
11.
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.
12.
Tranquility: Be
not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or
unavoidable.
13.
Humility: Imitate
Jesus and Socrates.
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