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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?

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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.

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It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
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It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
One by one we die.

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A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo read more

A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]

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

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

by The Talmud Found in: Companionship Quotes,
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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.]

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[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.]

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

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

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No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
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No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled loins our lamplit race,
And each from each takes heart of grace
And spirit till his turn be done.

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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.]

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