“A man is known by the company he keeps.”

“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

“Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known," – "But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."”

Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher

“Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"—"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."”

Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers

“[A] brilliant man is his own best company, unless he can find other company of the same sort.”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie book Man a Machine

“A man is known by the books he reads.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”

Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge