Imitate Jesus and Socrates.Īs for how to acquire these virtues, Franklin advised: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.ġ3. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.ġ2. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.ġ1. Avoid extreams forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.ġ0. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.ĩ. Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.Ĩ. Lose no time be always employ’d in something useful cut off all unnecessary actions.ħ. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself i.e., waste nothing.Ħ. Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.ĥ. Let all your things have their places let each part of your business have its time.Ĥ.
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.ģ. Eat not to dullness drink not to elevation.Ģ. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:ġ. In The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, we find a list of thirteen virtues that “occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable.”
0 kommentar(er)
