The Virtuous Marriage: Cleanliness And Tranquility
This is the tenth and eleventh post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. Cleanliness carries with it a great pride as it develops one’s attention to detail, work ethic, and self [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Moderation
This is the ninth post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. Pleasure. It’s one of the things most every human seeks. We love what it feels like [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Justice
This is the eighth post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Wrong none, by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. Every single one of us lives within a system. A marriage, family, extended family, neighborhood, [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Sincerity
This is the seventh post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. What comes to mind when you hear the word sincerity? Someone who is earnest [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Industry
This is the sixth post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions. I enjoy being lazy as much as the next guy, perhaps even more than [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Frugality
This is the fifth post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e. waste nothing. Even in today’s tough economic times, frugality is not viewed in a positive light. [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Resolution
This is the forth post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Resolution, it’s a word that is often thrown around at the beginning of the year, but [...]
The Virtuous Marriage: Order
This is the third post in a series about living the virtuous life like Benjamin Franklin. We’re taking his life and applying it to marriage and relationships. Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time. Let’s face it, we live in a fairly scattered world. Businesses and [...]
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