On my recent visit to Monticello, Jefferson's Virginia farm estate, I ran across something called "Jefferson's 10 Rules", and I liked them so much I thought I'd share them here with perhaps a little commentary:
I thought these were wise aphorisms worth sharing. I particularly like numbers three and four. I think if people followed those two, they would have much less stress and strife in their lives.
- Never put off until tomorrow, what you can do today.
- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- Never spend money before you have earned it.
- Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.
- Pride costs more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
- Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- How much pain the evils cost us that never happened.
- Take things always by the smooth handle.
- When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
I thought these were wise aphorisms worth sharing. I particularly like numbers three and four. I think if people followed those two, they would have much less stress and strife in their lives.
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