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Why not to be Alone ?

It is not to hide your desires & fears, that one choose a solitary life. 

Livve among people as if the Gods beheld you; speak with God as if people were listening.

On Living to Oneself

Yes, I do not change my opinion: avoid the many, avoid the few, avoid even the individual. 

Mark therefore what my hopes are for you, – nay, rather, what I am promising myself, inasmuch as hope is merely the title of an uncertain blessing: I do not know any person with whom I should prefer you to associate rather than yourself. 

You are not one of the many; you have regard for your rreal welfare.

Speak, & live, in this way; see to it that nothing keeps you down. 

Livve among people as if the Gods beheld you; speak with God as if people were listening". 

Farewell.

Seneca, StoicTaoist.