Solitude
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
solitude · being alone · al-infirād · al-waḥdah
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
The state of being alone with oneself, treated as dangerous for fools but safe for the self-mastered.
We are accustomed to keep watch over the man who is in mourning or in fear, lest he make a bad use of his solitude.
Crates, as they say, the pupil of this very Stilbo whom I mentioned in my last letter, when he had seen a young man walking apart by himself, asked what he was doing there alone.
A great part of soundness is to have left behind the encouragers of madness and to have gone far from that mutually harmful gathering.
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Aloneness, recommended against bad company and given a theological warrant, while the false solitude of conceit is condemned.
How welcome is solitude for a companion, when you fear the bane of the man who sits with you.