En lector, librum damus vere aureum, planeque scholasticum, quo continentur haec

Drink wine very sparingly. For as much as it offends, so much also it corroborates those who drink it.
Curb your anger: for it breeds madness, exceeding its measure.
In illnesses, use prayer before physicians and medicines.
Honor all priests, but associate only with the good.
Venerate the houses of God, and make even yourself a house for God.
Come often to the church: for it is wont to free us from perturbations and exterior fluctuations. is taken away.

Whatever things are on earth are temporary: let it not therefore perturb you that the world is separated.
When the affection of pleasure has invaded you, oppose to it the fear of men, and the offense of God.
Fortify your hearing and eyes: for through them all the darts of malice enter.
When you have prayed, lift up your mind to God: and even if it has descended abstracted, lift it up again nonetheless.
The human mind never ceases to generate (thoughts:) but you indeed expel the evil ones, and exercise the good by cultivating them.
Rejoice in humility: for its height is firm, and cannot fall.
Exercise the body in such a way that you curb the motions of the flesh: and if you are ill, care for the body so that it may attain health, not so that it may be enfeebled by luxuries.
Drive away base thoughts with other (better) thoughts.
Consider the beauty of heavenly goods, and no desire for the earth will capture you, nor anything sweet from it.
When some thought about God occurs to you, do not (blame) God, but yourself. For nothing is safe that exceeds the measure: which it is fitting to observe.
Consider base thoughts to be the seed of the devil. For thus they cease, and the sower himself is confounded.
Flee the excess of laughter: for it enfeebles the soul, and the enfeebled soul is easily stripped of the bridle of the law.
It behooves the soul to be divided into labors and prayers: for thus the devil finds not many entrances into us.
Consider the meditation of the law to be no mediocre labor: when the mind, wanting to know what it wishes at the same time as the tongue, is involved in books with labor.
When you are moved to labors with your hand, let the tongue sing psalms, and the mind pray. For God demands that we be always mindful of Him.
Seal everything you do with prayer: that indeed most of all, about which you see the mind wavering.
If you wish the labors of your hands to become divine and not earthly, you will share some of them with the needy.

Rejoice.