Patience with People

Meditations Book VII, Section XLI:

"Can the gods, who are immortal, for the continuance of so many ages bear without indignation with such and so many sinners, as have ever been, yea not only so, but also take such care for them, that they want nothing; and dust thou so grievously take on, as one that could bear with them no longer; thou that art for a moment in time? yea thou that art one of those sinners thyself? A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain; and should go about to suppress it in others, which is altogether impossible." 

I understand this to be saying, rendered into contemporary English: The gods are immortal and age upon age have patience with people's shortcomings and failings. Yet you (i.e., me), who exist only for a fleeting period of time, don't have patience with them. Even more absurd, I lack patience despite having failings and shortcomings myself. Worse still, I grant myself an exemption for my own failings and shortcomings, over which I have control, yet I try to correct others regarding their failings and shortcomings, over which I have no control.