Self sufficiency: only need yourself and dispense with societal support
Shamelessness: be willing to break even the most sacrosanct rules to express absolute freedom
Indifference: be unconcerned with things not within your control
Insensibility: to become insensible to both pain and pleasure
Ignorance: To limit intellectual activities to those that are of immediate value for human life
Disciplined training:
commit to a program of self training that strengthens his character,
lessens dependencies on social and physical needs,
maintain his desires and impulses under strict rational control
Strength of character:
aspire to develop in himself a character and physical constitution like those associated with Hercules
that renders him impervious to vicissitudes and sufferings of human life
Poverty:
understand that virtue and happiness cannot be found in the search and acquisition of physical possessions
divest himself of as many things as possible,
retaining the bare necessities to keep him alive and that assure him the freedom that Hercules esteemed as the most precious thing in the world
Philanthrophy
Recognize his moral obligation to make himself useful in the task of dispelling illusions that rob people of their ability to be happy and live in accordance with nature
Contempt for the opinions of many
renounce the need to be honored or appreciated by others
welcome repudiation and insults
look with contempt or suspicion at the values and customs by which people guide themselves
