If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.