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Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.
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Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?
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Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.