Benjamin Franklin's Personal Virtues
- Temperance: Eat not to dullness and drink not to elevation. Silence: Speak not but 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. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing. Industry: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. Justice: Wrong none, by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates
I wanted a place to put past quotes, so this is where I'm going to put them. Starting with....
It's the difference between the chicken and the pig at a ham and egg breakfast. The chicken's involved but the pig is committed.
If I explained how consciousness works, could you understand the explanation?
"Later is eternal - now is fleeting."
"Seek first to understand, and then to be understood."
"The world is far stranger than most people think."
"Life is strange, and it reminds me of that all the time."
"The Next Big Idea Is Inevitable."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
"I've been a person all my life."