Don't work like someone who expects to be miserable. Don't work to get pity or praise. Have only one concern: in everything you do or don't do, follow what love and community require.
Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.
Either teach them better if you can. If you can't, remember that patience was given to you for this very purpose — to bear with them kindly. The gods themselves are good to such people. They even help them with health, wealth, and honor sometimes. The gods are that gracious. Couldn't you be the same? What's stopping you?
Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember that for this use, to bear with them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee. The Gods themselves are good unto such; yea and in some things, (as in matter of health, of wealth, of honour,) are content often to further their endeavours: so good and gracious are they. And mightest thou not be so too? or, tell me, what doth hinder thee?