BOOK 12 -36-3

Completion is determined by that being who caused first your composition and now your dissolution. You have no part in either causation. Go then in peace: the god who lets you go is at peace with you.

And this last entry closes the book. 
Comme c'est trieste!
And I thank everyone for stopping by during these past two years. 
Adieu.

BOOK 12 -36 -2

The laws of the city apply equally to all. So what is there to fear in your dismissal from the city? This is no tyrant or corrupt judge who dismisses you, but the very same nature that brought you in. It is like the officer who engaged a comic actor dismissing him from the stage. 'But I have not played my five acts, only three.' True, but in life three acts can be the whole play.

BOOK 12 - 36

Mortal man, you have lived as a citizen in this great city. What matter if that life is fifty or fifty years?