Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains, and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: Artist's reconstruction of the Nymphaeum of Claudius at the Villa de Pison in Baiae, Italy, a popular seaside resort of the ancient Roman elite by Jean-Claude Golvin, French architect, archaeologist and former researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research - University of Bordeaux III Michel de Montaigne. He is the author of more than 1000 restitution drawings of ancient and medieval towns and monuments , most of them now in the collections of the Musée de l'Arles Antique.
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