But I Need Solitude Which Is To Say Recovery

“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.”

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”