The Exodus Offers a Warning for Our Bad Habits – Algemeiner
Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law (1659), by Rembrandt. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
The great Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), whose range of talents and career highlights remain as dazzling now as when he lived, was a man of exceptional character. At the age of 20 he aspired to moral perfection, and prepared a list of 13 virtues that he felt would make him an ideal man.
Throughout his long life, Franklin worked on perfecting these virtues, with varying degrees of success, later acknowledging that he was “incorrigible” and that “it is easier to prevent bad habi…….