A person should stay neutral and not let outside forces control them. You should respect yourself above all else. Trust your own judgment. Live your life ready for both good times and hard times. Don't be confident without knowledge, and don't have knowledge without the strength to stick with it. Once you decide something, stick with it. Don't keep changing your principles. You can tell that someone like this will be calm and steady. They will act with dignity and kindness.
A man should be unbiassed and not to be conquered by external things: he ought to admire himself alone, to feel confidence in his own spirit, and so to order his life as to be ready alike for good or for bad fortune. Let not his confidence be without knowledge, nor his knowledge without steadfastness: let him always abide by what he has once determined, and let there be no erasure in his doctrines. It will be understood, even though I append it not, that such a man will be tranquil and composed in his demeanour, high-minded and courteous in his actions.