This being acquired and , silence would be more easy; and my desire being to gain knowledge at the same time that I improved in virtue, and considering that in conversation it was obtained rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of , punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company, I gave silence the second place. This and the next, order, I expected would allow me more time for attending to my project and my studies. , once become habitual, would keep me firm in my endeavors to obtain all the subsequent virtues; and Industry freeing me from my remaining debt, and producing affluence and , would make more easy the practice of sincerity and justice, etc. Conceiving then, that, agreeably to the advice of Pythagoras in his Golden Verses, daily examination would be necessary.