The document compares the virtues outlined by Benjamin Franklin and Marcus Aurelius. Both philosophers emphasized virtues like frugality, industry, cleanliness, sincerity, and temperance. Franklin's virtues focused on personal habits while Aurelius' virtues centered more on social behaviors and authority. Some directly overlapping virtues included frugality, industry, and cleanliness. The document analyzes the similarities between the virtue lists of the two influential thinkers.

1. Aytekin Aliyeva
Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen
Virtues

2. Personal
• Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
• 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.
• Moderation : Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you
think they deserve.
• Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off
all unnecessary actions.
• Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
• Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or
unavoidable.

3. Social
•Silence: Speak not but what may
benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling
conversation.
•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.
•Chastity: Rarely use venery but for
health or offspring, never to dullness,
weakness, or the injury of your own or
another's peace or reputation.
•Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

4. Fourteen virtues by Marcus Aurelius
• Auctoritas - "Spiritual Authority" - The sense of one's social
standing, built up through experience, Pietas, and Industria.
• Comitas - "Humour" - Ease of manner, courtesy, openness, and
friendliness.
• Clementia - "Mercy" - Mildness and gentleness.
• Dignitas - "Dignity" - A sense of self-worth, personal pride.
• Firmitas - "Tenacity" - Strength of mind, the ability to stick to
one's purpose.
• Frugalitas - "Frugalness" - Economy and simplicity of style,
without being miserly.

5. •Gravitas - "Gravity" - A sense of the
importance of the matter at hand,
responsibility and earnestness.
•Honestas - "Respectability" - The
image that one presents as a
respectable member of society.
•Humanitas - "Humanity" -
Refinement, civilization, learning,
and being cultured.
•Industria - "Industriousness" - Hard
work.
•Pietas - "Dutifulness" - More than
religious piety; a respect for the
natural order socially, politically, and
religiously. Includes the ideas of
patriotism and devotion to others.

6. • Prudentia - "Prudence" - Foresight,
wisdom, and personal discretion.
• Salubritas - "Wholesomeness" - Health
and cleanliness.
• Severitas - "Sternness" - Gravity, self-
control.
• Veritas - "Truthfulness" - Honesty in
dealing with others.

7. Similarities
Frugalitas - "Frugalness" - Economy and simplicity of
style, without being miserly. (M.Aurelius)
Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or
yourself; i.e., waste nothing. (B.Franklin)
Industria - "Industriousness" - Hard work.(M.Aurelius)
Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something
useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. (B.Franklin)
Salubritas - "Wholesomeness" – Health and cleanliness.
(M.Aurelius)
Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or
habitation.(B.Franklin)

8. Similarities
Severitas - "Sternness" - Gravity,
self-control. (M.Aurelius).
"Temperance. Eat not to dullness;
drink not to elevation.“
(B.Franklin)
"Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit;
think innocently and justly, and, if
you speak, speak accordingly.“
(B.Franklin)
If you can see sharp then look and
judge wisely. (M.Aurelius)

9. Similarities
 Finish each day and be done with it. You have done
what you could. (R. Emerson)
 Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers
and that which is remembered. (M. Aurelius)
 Let no a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard
him. (R. Emerson)
 Dignitas - "Dignity" - A sense of self-worth, personal
pride.
 Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them
greatly, and they will show themselves great.(r.Emerson)
 Veritas - "Truthfulness" - Honesty in dealing with others.
(M. Aurelius)

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