Ben Franklin used to admit that he wanted to be a completely ethical man. In his autobiography book, chapter IX which is “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection”, he maintained that “I wish’d to live without committing any fault at any time” (Franklin, p.112). However, whenever he avoided doing a bad habit, he committed another bad one at the same time. The process to achieve the moral perfection was not easy as he thought. Thus, he consulted some different writers’ ideas about the moral virtues. After that, he had enumerated and catalogued thirteen of virtues that he defined its meaning by himself. Those virtues were arranged in order of importance which are temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation,
