16.  To perform all the exterior mortifications that you are allowed by obedience, but to attend particularly to interior mortifications; such as not to indulge curiosity, to be silent when you receive an affront, and never to do anything through self-satisfaction.

17.  To perform every spiritual exercise as if it were the last time you are performing it; and on that account to think frequently on death in your meditations.   And when you are in bed, consider that there you will one day breathe your last.

18.  Not to abandon your usual devotions, or any other good work, through human respect, through aridity, or tediousness.

19.  Not to complain, in sickness, of the inattention of the physicians or of the sisters; and to endeavor to conceal your pains, except when it is necessary to mention them to the physician.

20.  To banish melancholy, preserving tranquility, and a uniform serenity of countenance in all crosses.  He that wishes what God wishes should never be afflicted.