“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.”
“In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!”
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”
“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”