“Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy—of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.”

—  Zygmunt Bauman

[paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34.
The Art of Life (2008)

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