Jest with your equals. [ Danish Proverb ]
Make friends of equals. [ Stobaeus ]
An evil gain equals a loss. [ Syrus ]
Lynx-eyed toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [ La Fontaine ]
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals. [ Goldsmith ]
The anticipation of pleasure often equals the pleasure itself. [ Fabre d'Eglantine ]
To be humble to our superiors is duty; to our equals, courtesy; to our inferiors, generosity. [ Owen Feltham ]
Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where superiority is reduced by some equivalent advantage. [ Johnson ]
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? [ Milton ]
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. [ Macaulay ]
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. [ Henry Drummond ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. [ Joubert ]
Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]