True service means keeping yourself free from violent emotions and bad feelings. Stay away from rashness and vanity. Don't be discontent with the gods or with people. Whatever comes from the gods deserves respect because they are worthy and excellent. Whatever comes from people should be met with love, since they are our family. Sometimes we should feel pity and compassion too — because people act from ignorance about what is truly good and bad. This ignorance is like being unable to tell white from black.
His service doth consist in this, that a man keep himself pure from all violent passion and evil affection, from all rashness and vanity, and from all manner of discontent, either in regard of the gods or men. For indeed whatsoever proceeds from the gods, deserves respect for their worth and excellency; and whatsoever proceeds from men, as they are our kinsmen, should by us be entertained, with love, always; sometimes, as proceeding from their ignorance, of that which is truly good and bad, (a blindness no less, than that by which we are not able to discern between white and black:) with a kind of pity and compassion also.