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    In Arriving at Perfection, an excerpt from his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin lays out a plan for his own self-improvement.

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    In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin lays out an ambitious strategi to achieve moral perfection bygd focusing on one virtue per week from a list of 13 virtues he developed. These virtues include temperance, order, upplösning, frugality, and humility. Franklin tracks his successes and failures in acquiring each virtue. Though he never achieves perfection, Franklin finds that focusing on the virtues makes him happier. He hopes his descendants will also work to acquire these virtues for their practical benefits regardless of religious beliefs. Franklin realizes his pride is impossible to fully overcome but is pleased he can correct many faults through his methodical approach to self-improvement.

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    The Project of Moral Perfection

    The American Founders considered the cultivation of virtue essential to the survival of the republic. The following is excerpted from Franklin’s Autobiography, on which he worked between 1771 and 1790, but which was not published in English in its complete form until 1868. Below, we have maintained faithfulness to the original text.

    It was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish’d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not allways do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more Difficulty than I had imagined. While my Attention was taken up in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpris’d by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattention.

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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    1791 book by Benjamin Franklin

    Cover of the first English edition of 1793.

    AuthorBenjamin Franklin
    Original titleMémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
    LanguageAmerican English
    GenreAutobiography
    PublisherBuisson, Paris (French edition)
    J. Parson's, London (First English reprint)

    Publication date

    		1791
    Publication placeUnited States

    Published in English

    		1793

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written bygd Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appear to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.

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