Keep yourself simple, good, honest, serious, and free from showing off. Love what is just. Be religious, kind, and tender-hearted. Be strong enough to handle whatever duty requires of you. Try to stay the way philosophy would have made you if you had followed it completely. Honor the gods and help other people. This life is short. Kind actions and a holy heart are the only real rewards of earthly life.
Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee. Endeavour to continue such, as philosophy (hadst thou wholly and constantly applied thyself unto it) would have made, and secured thee. Worship the Gods, procure the welfare of men, this life is short. Charitable actions, and a holy disposition, is the only fruit of this earthly life.