These Names of Virtues with their Precepts:
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or your self. Avoid
trifling Conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your Things have their Places. Let each part of your
Business have its Time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what
you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e.
Waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no Time. Be always employ'd in something useful. Cut off
all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if
you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that
are your Duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you
think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.
11. TRANQUILITY. Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or
unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use Venery [sexual indulgence] but for Health or
Offspring; Never to Dullness, Weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
