1. Friendship is always the auxiliary of virtue. ——Cicero

2. Friendship doubles joy and reduces sorrow. ——Bacon

3. Friendship is a tree that can provide shade. ——Coleridge

4. The most embarrassing thing is to reluctantly maintain friendship. ——Plautus

5. Friendship can increase happiness and reduce pain. ——Edison

6. Friendship is a kind of harmonious equality. ——Pythagoras

7. Friendship is a sacred and ancient name. ——Ovid

8. True friendship is never calm. ——Madame Sévigné

9. Compromise is not a solid foundation for any friendship. ——Tagore

10. Understanding is definitely the soil that nurtures the fruits of all friendships. ——Wilson

11. The most beautiful thing in life is his friendship with others. ——Lincoln

12. Friendship can only be produced and maintained in practice. ——Goethe

13. Wholehearted help and closeness are the highest state of friendship. ——Valois

14. Friendship is the spice of life and the painkiller of life. ——Emerson

15. Our friendship with each other will work together to maintain our good reputation. ——Benavente

16. The light of friendship is like phosphorus, most visible when the surroundings are dark. ——Cromwell

17. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ——Kahlil Gibran

18. Friendship, activity and youthful singing will alleviate our pain. ——Kontzkevich

19. Help friends to maintain friendship; forgive enemies to gain influence. ——Franklin

20. If you want to gain the friendship of others, you must first be friendly to others. ——Emerson

21. True friendship is like health. You cannot appreciate its preciousness until it is lost. ——Bacon

22. Wealth brings honor, wealth creates friendship, and poor people are servants wherever they go. ——Ovid

23. The basis of friendship lies in the greatest similarity in the hearts and souls of two people. ——Beethoven

24. No friendship has a more solid foundation than having a common enemy. ——Ireland

25. Friendship is two hearts treating each other sincerely, rather than one heart beating another heart. ——Lu Xun

26. Nobility and friendship, loyalty and courage—these are the four names given to people. ——Ji Dafei

27. Although promises can win friendship, it is actions that cultivate and maintain friendship. ——Feltham

28. If you sow melons, you will reap melons; if you sow beans, you will reap beans. Sow preferential friendship and reap benevolent friendship. ——Guo Moruo

29. Friendship neither requires slaves nor allows rulers. Friendship likes equality. ——Gonchakov

30. Openness and honesty and the depth of friendship should not be measured by the length of time. ——Balzac

31. True friendship always anticipates the needs of the other person, rather than announcing what one needs. ——Mo Luoya

32. Although broken friendships can be restored, they can no longer reach the level of intimacy. ——Toro Fuller

33. What is love? One body, two hearts; what is friendship? Two bodies and one heart. ——Joseph Lu

34. We cannot talk about youth without friendship, because friendship is the most beautiful flower that embellishes youth.

——Daisaku Ikeda