Keep these ideas short and basic. When you remember them, they should be enough to clear your mind and send you back to your duties feeling content. What is bothering you anyway? Is it people's bad behavior? Remember that all thinking creatures are made to help each other. Being patient with them is part of justice. They don't mean to do wrong. And how many people who used to hate, suspect, and fight bitterly are now dead and gone? It's time to let it go.
Let these precepts be brief and fundamental, which as soon as thou dost call them to mind, may suffice thee to purge thy soul throughly, and to send thee away well pleased with those things whatsoever they be, which now again after this short withdrawing of thy soul into herself thou dost return unto. For what is it that thou art offended at? Can it be at the wickedness of men, when thou dost call to mind this conclusion, that all reasonable creatures are made one for another? and that it is part of justice to bear with them? and that it is against their wills that they offend? and how many already, who once likewise prosecuted their enmities, suspected, hated, and fiercely contended, are now long ago stretched out, and reduced unto ashes? It is time for thee to make an end.