Don't announce that you're a philosopher. Don't lecture ignorant people about your principles. Show them through your actions instead. At a dinner party, don't give speeches about how people should eat. Just eat properly yourself. Remember — Socrates avoided showing off completely. When people came to him wanting introductions to other philosophers, he simply introduced them. He handled being ignored gracefully. So when ignorant people start discussing philosophical principles, stay mostly quiet. There's real danger in spitting out ideas you haven't fully digested. If someone tells you that you know nothing and it doesn't bother you, then you know you're making real progress. Sheep don't throw up grass to show shepherds how much they've eaten. Instead, they digest their food internally and produce wool and milk externally. Do the same thing. Don't put your principles on display for ignorant people. Show them the actions that come from digesting those principles.
Never proclaim yourself a philosopher, nor make much talk among the ignorant about your principles, but show them by actions. Thus, at an entertainment, do not discourse how people ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that thus Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be introduced by him to philosophers, he took them and introduced them; so well did he bear being overlooked. So if ever there should be among the ignorant any discussion of principles, be for the most part silent. For there is great danger in hastily throwing out what is undigested. And if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have really entered on your work. For sheep do not hastily throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten, but, inwardly digesting their food, they produce it outwardly in wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you not make an exhibition before the ignorant of your principles, but of the actions to which their digestion gives rise.