On Solitude

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• pmoriarty · Aug 23, 2016 · Recommends

  There's also Michel de Montaigne's essays from the 1500's On Solitude.[1] More recently, there are books like The Lonely Crowd from the 1960's, [2] and Anthony Storr's Solitude, from the 1980's[3] Of course, for thousands of years, spending time in solitude has been greatly…

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• rramadass · Jul 17, 2019 · Mentions

  …particular Stoicism; were popularized by the Romans. Here you have the usual suspects i.e. the works of Seneca, Cicero, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Finally, the Essays of Michel De Montaigne contain one "On Solitude" (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm#link2...) which has been published as a book under "Penguin Great Ideas" series; See https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Penguin-Great-Ideas/dp/01413...…

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