"People are rendered sociable by their inability to endure solitude, that is to say, their own society. They become sick of themselves. It is this vacuity of soul which drives them to intercourse with others.[…] Such people, it may be said, possess only a small fraction of humanity in themselves; and it requires a great many of them put together to make up a fair amount of it,—to attain any degree of consciousness as men. A man, in the full sense of the word,—a man par excellence—does not represent a fraction, but a whole number: he is complete in himself."
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, trans. T. Bailey Saunders (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1890), Ch. II, # 9, pp. 31–33
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