Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues

Discover Benjamin Franklin’s Blueprint for Living a Moral Life This pocket-sized hardcover edition contains all thirteen moral virtues as Benjamin Franklin wrote them in his memoirs, first posthumously published in 1791. In the heart of this larger work, today known as The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , he writes of the bold and arduous project of arriving at perfection that he set for himself as a young man. In this task of perfection, young Franklin prepared a catalog of thirteen necessary or desirable virtues that he might strive to acquire by means of habit and daily practice. This edition also includes a chart that Franklin used to track his personal progress. —- ISBN: 9781429093552 | ISBN10: 1429093552 | ISBN-13: 978-1429093552