You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.