“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Variant: He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.
“But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.”
— Francis Bacon, book Essays
Of Friendship
Essays (1625)
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