2. Be light before thick, be sparse before close, be far before close, and make friends. —— Wang Da
3. If you want to make friends, you must do something for others first —— those need to spend money. I will break up with you because it is profitable. —— Seneca
5. When you make friends, you only take the advantages, regardless of the disadvantages. —— Li Xing
6. If you get along with good people, you will be a gentleman. If you get along with evil people, you will flow to others. —— Zhang Boling
7. A gentleman chooses before making friends, a villain chooses before making friends. Proper friendship must be devoted to moral cultivation. -[Ancient Greece] Plato: Five Dialogues of Plato
9. Don't have no friends, and don't have too many friends. -[Ancient Greece] Aristotle: The Ethics of Nico Kyle
1. You should be cautious in choosing friends. Once you make friends, don't abandon them easily. -[Ancient Greece] Solon, quoted from diogenes: The Biography of Solon
11. Having too many useless friends is harmful to yourself. -[Ancient Greece] Aesop: Aesop's Fables
12. A friend in need is sincere, and when you are rich, you will naturally be full of friends. -(Ancient Greece) euripides: "Herb"
13. The best way to cope with the fear of enemies outside is to make friends as much as possible; For those who cannot make friends, at least avoid making enemies with them; If you can't even do this, you should avoid interacting with them as much as possible and alienate them for your own benefit. -[Ancient Greece] Epicurus:
14. I would rather get an ordinary but honest friend than more clever villains. -(Ancient Greece) euripides: "Hyon"
15. A friend in need. -(Soviet) Lenin
16. It is not safe to make friends with powerful people. -[ancient Rome] Phaedrus: Fables
17. People who make friends with you because they are profitable will also break up with you because they are unprofitable. -[Ancient Rome] Seneca: Letters to Luxiliu
18. People can only become friends after many contacts. -[ancient Rome] Cicero:
19. It is virtue that creates and maintains friendship. Cicero: The Collected Works of Cicero
2. Choosing friends should be like choosing books to read, one should be cautious, and the other should control the quantity. Howell: proverbs
21. Choosing friends is like picking melons. Shall I tell you why? Because to find a ripe one, you have to pick a hundred. -[Britain] Melmer: epigram
22. A gentleman's friendship is indifferent, but a villain's friendship is bitter. A gentleman is indifferent to his relatives, and a villain is willing to refuse. -(Warring States) Zhuangzi
23. He who is near Zhu Zhechi is black. -(Western Jin Dynasty) Fu Xuan
24. A true friend is a soul conceived in two bodies. -Aristotle