The benefits that solitude brings to the intellectual are well known. It could even be said that an unusual dose of solitude is indispensable to him. However, sometimes not enough importance is given to the true blessing that good company is. There are those who have never been able to enjoy it and, in response to this impediment, have had to break down. Because one thing is clear: personality is strengthened when it enjoys the regular presence of peers; and it tends to weaken if it can only assert itself in solitude. The difference is whether or not there is an environment capable of welcoming it, and such an environment can only be created with a great deal of luck. He who allows himself to live a double life in order not to abandon social interaction entirely is therefore at a tremendous disadvantage: his inferior side, however long he lives, strives to destroy the last remnant of that noble part whose greatest possible glory in existence is to succeed in manifesting itself.