What exile from himself can flee?

To zones though more and more remote,

Still, still pursues, where’er I be,

The blight of life,—the demon Thought.—Childe Harold.

Patriæ quis exul se quoque fugit?—Horace: Ode to Grosphus.

Vide also Epist. XI. 28.


To-morrow for the Moon we depart,

But not to-night,—to-night is for the heart.—Byron: The Island.

Nunc vino pellite curas;