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Exile (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation : but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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Exile (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠terrible to those who have a circumscribed habitation, but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.

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Exile (n.) only ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠removes a good man from the wicked.

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Exile (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the penalty of guilt, and the guilty are exiles even when they have not changed their locality.

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Exile (n.) differs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠little from constant travel, if you examine the thing and not the ignominy of the name — the life many of the most famous philosophers chose.