Musonius Rufus on Exile 2

Stoic Reflections on Hardship

Tell me, is not the Universe the common fatherland of all men, as Socrates held? Well, then, you must not consider it really being banished from your fatherland if you go from where you were born and reared, but only being exiled from a certain city, that is if you claim to be a reasonable person.

For such a man does not value or despise any place as the…