equals

Equals make the best friends.

Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous.

“It is a great honor to me,” returned Monte Cristo, “to be thus, on the first day of my arrival in Paris, brought in contact with a man whose merit equals his reputation, and to whom fortune has for once been equitable, but has she not still on the plains of Mitidja, or in the mountains of Atlas, a marshal’s staff to offer you?”

“My present happiness equals my past misery,” said the count.