Loss and Displacement
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“Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions - in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices ...”
“No place of banishment can be found in the whole world in which man cannot find a home.”
“To accept without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.”
“The evening being come, I return home and go to my study; at the entrance I pull off my peasant-clothes, covered with dust and dirt, and put on my noble court dress, and thus becomingly re-clothed I pass into the ancient courts of the men of old, where, being lovingly received by them, I am fed with that food which is mine alone; where I do not hesitate to speak with them, and to ask for the reason of their actions, and they in their benignity answer me.”
“He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.”
“Even a place of exile suffices to provide one with necessaries; whole kingdoms do not suffice to provide one with superfluities.”