Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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