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

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

3. The best friend is the kind of person who doesn’t like to talk too much, can talk to you silently and is closely connected with you. ——Gorky

4. You may forget the person who laughed with you; but you will never forget the person who cried with you. ——Kahlil Gibran

5. It is a principle of friendship to neither ask nor allow others to do despicable things. ——Cicero

6. Even the most sacred friendship may have secrets hidden in it, but you must not misunderstand your friend just because you cannot guess his secret. ——Beethoven

7. The most precious thing in life is life, what is most needed in life is learning, the most enjoyable thing in life is work, and the most important thing in life is friendship. ——Stalin

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

9. The so-called friendship is a transaction between equal people without the relationship of interest. ——Gores

10. Only those who are alone know the full joy of friendship. Others have their families; but for those who live alone and away from home, friends are everything.

——Willa Kaser