Stoic Snippets 176

Take me and cast me where you will; for there I shall keep my divine part tranquil, that is, content, if it can feel and act conformably to its proper constitution. 

Is this change of place sufficient reason why my soul should be unhappy and worse than it was, depressed, expanded, shrinking, frightened? 

And what will you find which is sufficient reason for this? 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.45 

IMAGE: J.M.W. Turner, War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)