FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me,
What good will my soul do thy lord?MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom.
FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
[Misery loves company.]Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)
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Variants of the Latin translation:The same wording is used in the "B" text (1594; 1616), l. 427ff.
- It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.
- It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have had companions in woe.
- To the unhappy it is a comfort to have had company in misery.
- Solace of the wretched to have companions of pain.

