Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Henry David Thoreau
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Jean Rostand
Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing. Cecelia Ahern
He falsely asserted that Jews hated Christians so much that they never met them without ejaculating curses on their heads, thus pretending that the bigotry and intolerance of the Jews was equal to those qualities inherent in the breasts of Dominican friars. Elias Hiam Lindo
It is not thus that the Black Snake, the great General Wayne acted; he was a true warrior and a brave man; he was equal to any of our chiefs that we have, equal to any that we have ever had. Anthony Wayne