ALONE
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
misfortunes spring, being alone
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
presence of others, completely alone