1) Don’t do evil things because they are small, and don’t do good things because they are small things. ——China Jin Chen Shou
2) True friendship requires maintaining a certain distance. When there is distance, there will be respect; when there is respect, friendship will last forever. ——You Jin
3) Kind-hearted people and imaginative people are easier to gather than cold and cruel people. ——Johnson
4) The greatest effort of friendship is not to show a friend our flaws, but to make him see his own flaws. ——La Rochefoucauld, you can never take out your heart without knowing the other party’s details. ——Balzac
5) Friendship neither requires slaves nor allows rulers, friendship likes equality. ——Gonchakov
6) An honest person will never use other people’s things in vain, and will never take other people’s things in vain...——Gorky "The Chuikov Family"
7) Friendship is reliable in other things, but cannot be trusted in love; so lovers use their own lips and tongue. Whoever is alive, let him convey his feelings himself, never ask others to do it for him; because beauty is a witch, and under her magic, loyalty will dissolve in passion. ——Shakespeare
8) Civilization is good, barbarism is evil; freedom is good, bondage is evil. But it is this kind of imaginary knowledge that eliminates the instinctive, happiest and original need for good in human nature.
——Tolstoy's "Lucerne"