Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Who friendship with a knave hath made, is judged a partner in the trade.
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
Keep good men company, and you shall be of their number.
A man becomes like those whose society he loves.
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
