What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
What profit is there in crossing the sea and in going from one city to another? If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. Perhaps you have reached Athens, or perhaps Rhodes; choose any state you fancy, how does it matter what its character may be? You will be bringing to it your own.