Virtues
A public ledger of daily virtue, after Benjamin Franklin’s little book. Each week I attend to one virtue in particular, and each day I mark those I kept.
This week’s virtue · week 1
Self-mastery
Maintain command over your thoughts, actions, and habits. Act with a strong will.
- Current streak
- 1d
- Longest streak
- 1d
- Days logged
- 1
- Virtues kept
- 5
The virtues
- Self-masterythis week
Maintain command over your thoughts, actions, and habits. Act with a strong will.
- Temperance
Restrain from excess; eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
- Honesty
Speak and act only in accordance with the truth; deceive no one, least of all yourself.
- Justice
Wrong none by doing injuries, nor omit the benefits that are your duty.
- Equanimity
Be not disturbed by trifles, nor by accidents common or unavoidable.
- Humility
Take no more credit than is your due; remain open to correction.
- Industry
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
- Silence
Speak only what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
- Order
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
- Resolution
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
- Cleanliness
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
- Kindness
Seek to do good to others; be gentle in all your dealings.