Be cheerful. Don't depend on other people's help or attention. Don't depend on others for rest and peace. Be like someone who has always been upright on their own, not like someone who had to be corrected.
To be cheerful, and to stand in no need, either of other men's help or attendance, or of that rest and tranquillity, which thou must be beholding to others for. Rather like one that is straight of himself, or hath ever been straight, than one that hath been rectified.
Do nothing against your will or that harms the community. Don't act without thinking it through first. Don't be reluctant about what you must do. Don't try to impress people with fancy words. Don't talk too much or take on too much. Let the divine part of you see that it governs a real person — someone mature, someone who cares about others, a Roman, a leader. Someone who has arranged his life like a soldier ready for the trumpet call to leave this world quickly. Someone whose word and actions are so reliable that he needs no oath or witness to back them up.
Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy. Affect not to set out thy thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker. Moreover, let thy God that is in thee to rule over thee, find by thee, that he hath to do with a man; an aged man; a sociable man; a Roman; a prince; one that hath ordered his life, as one that expecteth, as it were, nothing but the sound of the trumpet, sounding a retreat to depart out of this life with all expedition. One who for his word or actions neither needs an oath, nor any man to be a witness.