In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
It is difficulties that show what men are.
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.