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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Fatal is the discovery that our friend is fallible, that he has prejudices.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer