Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

When gossip starts, be deaf.

Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.

If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less.