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And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave me and
Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto
the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Author: Bible
Source: Galatians (ch. II, v. 9)
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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXIII), quoted in
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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime
congregantur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Cato Major De Senectute (III, 7)
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We are in the same boat.
Author: Pope Clement I (Clemens Romanus)
Source: To the Church of Corinth
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Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (XXII, 13)
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Better your room than your company.
Author: Simon Forman
Source: Marriage of Wit and Wisdom
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It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]
Author: Simon Forman
Source: Marriage of Wit and Wisdom
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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.
Author: Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Source: Grief and Joy
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Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.
Author: Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Source: Grief and Joy
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It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after all.
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Source: Faustus
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Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
Author: Mrs. Parr
Source: Adam and Eve (IX, 124)
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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: De Consolatione ad Marciam (12, 5)
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[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.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistles (XIX)
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
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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?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at III, ii)
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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.
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Source: Songs Before Sunrise
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A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among
foxes.
Author: The Talmud
Source: Talmud, Aboth (IV, 20)
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