1. TEMPERANCE:
Eat not to dullness.
Drink not to elevation.
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8. JUSTICE:
Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
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2. SILENCE:
Speak not but what may benefit others or your self. Avoid trifling conversation.
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9. MODERATION:
Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
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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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10. CLEANLINESS:
Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation.
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4. RESOLUTION:
Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve.
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11. TRANQUILITY:
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
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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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12. CHASTITY
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6. INDUSTRY:
Lose no time. -- Be always employed in something useful. -- Cut off all
unnecessary actions.
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13. HUMILITY:
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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7. SINCERITY:
Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak
accordingly.
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