What you need, Serenus, is not the harsh treatments I mentioned earlier. You don't need to hold yourself back, get angry with yourself, or give yourself stern lectures. What you need is the last thing on my list: confidence in yourself. Believe that you're on the right path. Don't let yourself be distracted by all the confusing trails that cross your way — the paths that wanderers have made as they circle around, some even going in loops near the right path itself.
What you need, therefore, is, not any of those harsher remedies to which allusion has been made, not that you should in some cases check yourself, in others be angry with yourself, in others sternly reproach yourself, but that you should adopt that which comes last in the list, have confidence in yourself, and believe that you are proceeding on the right path, without being led aside by the numerous divergent tracks of wanderers which cross it in every direction, some of them circling about the right path itself.