They seek retreats for themselves in the wilderness, by the seashore, in the mountains

They seek retreats for themselves in the wilderness, by the seashore, in the mountains. You too pine for this. But how very commonplace it all is, when at any hour you please you may withdraw into yourself. For nowhere does a man retire more quietly and peacefully than into his own soul, especially if he carries within him that at which, with but a glance, he at once finds himself in perfect order

ὅλον δὲ τοῦτο ἰδιωτικώτατόν ἐστιν, ἐξόν, ἧς ἂν ὥρας ἐθελήσῃς, εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀναχωρεῖν. οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ οὔτε ἡσυχιώτερον οὔτε ἀπραγμονέστερον ἄνθρωπος ἀναχωρεῖ ἢ εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχήν

Marcus Aurelius. "Meditations", Book IV, Chapter 3. Translated into Russian by A. K. Gavrilov

Illustration: Vasily Polenov, "Dreams". 1894. Radishchev Museum, Saratov