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"I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris]."
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"One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude."
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"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things."
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"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
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"In solitude, you will find the soul."
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"When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you've been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends."
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"Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done."
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"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."
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"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
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"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves, rising and falling only for my breathing."
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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science
"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
Cause
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."
Love
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion
"One man with courage is a majority."
Courage
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
Freedom
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
Wisdom
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics
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