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Ten Rules for a Good Life

• Posted by Theresa on June 25th, 2006 filed in Anything Goes, Excellence, Choices

Here are some good pointers from a great man of history - Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson’s Ten Rules for a Good Life

1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

2. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.

4. Never buy what you don’t want because it’s cheap.

5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.

7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.

9. Take things always by the smooth handle.

10. When angry, count 10 before you speak; if you’re very angry, count 100.

This list was originally entitled “A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life” and was written by Thomas Jefferson on February 21, 1825 as part of a letter and poem to Thomas Jefferson Smith.

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