To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Silence is safer than speech.
With ills unending strives the putter off.
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit