It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.