1. Except for a true friend, no medicine can heal the heart. To a true friend you can convey your sorrows, joys, fears, hopes, doubts, remonstrances, and anything else that weighs on your heart. ——Bacon

2. Many people who appear to be friends are not actually friends, and many who are friends do not appear to be friends. ——Greece

3. Enjoying a small group of like-minded friends in society is the basic principle of human social attributes. ——Edmund Burke

4. A friend in need is a friend. ——Lenin

5. To make friends, you must make loyal people. Just as a smart doctor must check the pulse and examine the root of the disease before treating a disease, when making friends, you must also test the character of the other party, otherwise it will be dangerous. ——Ibn Mugafa

6. A person who does not even have a good friend is not worth living at all. ——Democritus

7. People who make temporary acquaintances cannot be regarded as friends. ——Bacon

8. If you want to make good friends, if you want the friendship to last, you must be humble and considerate to each other. ——Chaucer

9. A friend is a gift you give yourself. —— Stevenson

10. Friends are the sunshine in life. ——Ibsen

11. The older the friends, the better, and the older the wine, the more fragrant it is. ——John Ray

12. The difficulty of the meaning of a friend is that it has ever-changing meanings. ——Sanmao

13. The most beautiful thing in the world is to have a few friends with upright minds and hearts. ——Einstein

14. Ten thousand taels of gold are easy to get, but it is hard to find a close friend. ——Cao Xueqin

15. Brothers may not be friends, but friends are often like brothers. ——Franklin

16. A true friend is one soul conceived in two bodies. ——Aristotle

17. True friends do not talk about friendship. They do not ask each other for anything for the sake of friendship, but do everything they can for each other.

——Belinsky