“Many solitaries living in the desert have been lost because they lived like people in the world. It is better to live in a crowd and want to live a solitary life than to live in solitude and be longing all the time for company.” SocietySolitudeAsceticismMatrona Book:The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection Source: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection