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It is not so easy to escape from oneself by the mere act of becoming a monk. Said Kaisarios Daponte in the eighteenth century: "I changed my clothes and my situation, but not my character." He had been a well-educated diplomat but became world-weary.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 148