| 1. TEMPERANCE: Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation. |
8. JUSTICE: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. |
| 2. SILENCE: Speak not but what may benefit others or your self. Avoid trifling conversation. |
9. MODERATION: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. |
| 3. ORDER: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time. |
10. CLEANLINESS: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation. |
| 4. RESOLUTION: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. |
11. TRANQUILITY: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. |
| 5. FRUGALITY: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself, i.e., waste nothing. |
12. CHASTITY |
| 6. INDUSTRY: Lose no time. -- Be always employed in something useful. -- Cut off all unnecessary actions. |
13. HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates. |
| 7. SINCERITY: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. |
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