Francis Bacon Quote

It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.

Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude,...

It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude,...

It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude,...

It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude,...