Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Better be alone than in bad company.

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If you are lonely when you're alone you are in bad company.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone let him be where he will.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.