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Correct answer: D. Solitude is one condition of peace with oneself.
Explanation
The essay's aim is a solitude of the mind that brings ease.
Note: Passage I is from Montaigne's essay 'Of Solitude' (Essays I.39, 1580), given in a modern translation and summarised here. Solitude aims at living at ease, but people mistake the way: leaving court and market does not free us, since a household is hardly less troublesome than a state, and ambition, avarice, fear and lust follow us into cloisters and schools of philosophy. We must withdraw the soul itself from these attachments.
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