Editing Virtue (section)

=== Benjamin Franklin ===
[[File:Seal of Virginia.svg|thumb|upright|Virtue, spear in hand, with her foot on the prostrate form of [[Tyranny]] on the [[Sic Semper Tyrannis|Great Seal of Virginia]]]]
These are the virtues that [[Benjamin Franklin]] used to develop what he called "moral perfection".<ref>{{cite book|title-link=The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin|chapter-url=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin/text/chapter-9|chapter=Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection|title=The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin|last=Franklin|first=Benjamin|author-link=Benjamin Franklin|year=1791}}</ref> He had a checklist in a notebook to measure each day how he lived up to his virtues.

They became known through [[The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin's autobiography]].

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# [[Temperance (virtue)|Temperance]]: Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation.
# Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling Conversation.
# [[Order (virtue)|Order]]: Let all your Things have their Places. Let each Part of your Business have its Time.
# [[Determination|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.
# [[Diligence|Industry]]: Lose no Time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary Actions.
# [[Sincerity]]: Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
# [[Justice (virtue)|Justice]]: Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.
# [[Moderation]]: Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve.
# [[Cleanliness]]: Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation.
# [[Tranquillity|Tranquility]]: Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.
# [[Chastity]]: Rarely use [[wikt:venery#Etymology 2|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.
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