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

[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.]

No possession is gratifying without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]

Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]