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1. Temperance

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

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2. Silence

Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

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3. Order

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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4. Resolution

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

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5. Frugality

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.

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6. Industry

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

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7. Sincerity

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

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8. Justice

Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

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9. Moderation

Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

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10. Cleanliness

Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.

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11. Tranquility

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

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12. 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.

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13. Humility

Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

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How to acquire these virtues, Franklin advised:

My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand above.

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