It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after read more

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after all.

[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to read more

[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
[Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas,
quam quid edas et bibas.]

If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
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If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war: since that to both
It stands in like request?

Better your room than your company.

Better your room than your company.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime
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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime
congregantur.]

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among
foxes.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among
foxes.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.