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

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

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]

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?

[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.]

Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.

Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.

Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.

Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.

We are in the same boat.

We are in the same boat.

Better your room than your company.

Better your room than your company.