Avoid foolish and immoderate laughter, vulgar entertainments, impurity, display, spectacles, recitations, and all egotistical remarks.

Set before you the examples of the great and good.
Do not be dazzled by mere appearances.

Do what is right quite irrespective of what people will say or think.

Remember that your body is a very small matter and needs but very little; just as all that the foot needs is a shoe, and not a dazzling ornament of gold, purple, or jewelled embroidery.

To spend all one's time on the body, or on bodily exercises, shows a weak intellect.