Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.
Give full attention and devotion to each act.