“Thou shalt not exalt thyself, nor shalt thou give presumption to thy soul. Thy soul shall not be joined to the lofty, but with the just and lowly shalt thou converse.
“The events that happen to thee shalt thou accept as good, knowing that without God nothing taketh place.
“My child, thou shalt remember night and day him that speaketh to thee the word of God.
“But thou shalt seek out day by day the faces of the saints, that thou mayest rest in their words.
“Thou shalt not desire division, but shalt make peace between those at strife; so thou shalt judge justly. Thou shalt not respect a person in rebuking for transgressions.
“Thou shalt not be of two minds whether it shall be or not.
“Be not one that stretcheth out his hands to receive, but shutteth them close for giving.
“If thou hast, thou shalt give with thine hands a ransom for thy sins.
“Thou shalt not hesitate to give, nor when thou givest shalt thou murmur, for thou shalt know who is the good recompenser of the reward.
“Thou shalt not turn away from him that needeth, but shalt share all things with thy brother, and shalt not say that they are thine own; for if ye are fellow-sharers in that which is imperishable, how much more in perishable things.