We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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