The relationship between acquaintance and friendship is what flirting is to love - exciting, but not satisfying.

——Alec Waugh

Friendship is a union of souls. This union can be divorced. It is a tacit contract between two sensitive and upright people. . ——Voltaire

Only to friends can you pour out your sorrows and joys, fears and hopes, suspicions and joys. ——Bacon

There is nothing more dangerous than ignorant friends. It's better to have smart enemies. ——La Fontaine

A gentle attitude is indeed a great comfort to a despised heart. ——Romain Rolland

If there is a misunderstanding between friends, they should exchange views frankly and not slander behind their backs; if they make mistakes, they should be warned face to face, and their merits should be praised behind their backs. ——Kaihara Yixuan

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

People form friendships for many reasons, some out of nature, some out of contract, some out of self-interest, and some out of comradeship. ——Jay Taylor

He who limits friendship to two persons seems to confuse the security of wise friendship with the jealousy and folly of love. ——Adam Smith

It is easy to die for a friend, but it is difficult to find a friend worth dying for. ——Mhuo

People who become friends with you because it is profitable will also break up with you because they are not profitable.

——Seneca

Whoever has met a friendly person in the world and experienced the state of sincerity has tasted the joy of heaven and earth. ——Romain Rolland

There is only one way to understand people: do not be impatient when judging them. ——Saint Peve

Those who can speak frankly to you are your best friends. ——Boswell

Visit friends more often who are in crisis than who are popular. ——Kailun

Even if everyone in the world hates you and believes you are bad, as long as you have a clear conscience, you will not be without friends. ——Charlotte Bronte

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

When encountering major worries and troubles in life, friendship should be an effective comfort. ——Balzac

Friendship is the tacit understanding of spirits, the communication of hearts, and the combination of virtues. ——William Peng

I don’t want to compare our friendship to an iron chain; because the iron chain may be rusted by rain or broken by a falling tree. ——William Peng

The best effort of friendship is not to show our flaws to a friend, but to make him see his own flaws. ——Larochevko

Friendship is a communication between equals without interests, while fraud is a despicable relationship between a tyrant and a slave. ——Goldsmith

Friendship without sustenance is not a true friendship, but a net cast into the ocean of life, which in the end will yield nothing. ——Kahlil Gibran

I hope God will prevent us from making stupid friends, because an overly attentive idiot is more dangerous than any enemy. ——Krylov

Those who unite by rights will become separated when their rights are exhausted. ——"Historical Records"

Those who use power to make friends will be defeated by the power; those who make friends with benefits will be scattered. ——Wang Tong

What kind of person you make, what kind of friends you make. ——Euripides

He who wants to be friends with everyone is no one’s friend. ——Pfeiffer

A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and friends to help people. ——Zengzi

Respect your friends and be trustworthy with them. ——"The Wisdom of Ben Sirah" in the Second Code of the Bible

The greatest love a person can have is to devote himself to his friends. ——"New Testament·1 John"

Providing convenience to friends is also doing good things for yourself. ——Erasmus

When your friends pour out their feelings to you, don’t be afraid to say the “no” in your heart, and don’t hide the “yes” in your heart. When he is silent, your heart still has to listen to his heart; because in friendship, without words, all thoughts, all wishes, all hopes occur in silent joy and are enjoyed. ——Kahlil Gibran

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

The friendship between men is based on personal opinions and interests, while the interaction between women is because they are in the same fate. ——Simon de Beauvoir

No friendship lasts forever. People come and go in your life, and sometimes the process of friendship is short-lived and limited. ——Sophia Loren

The difference between friendship and love is that friendship means two people and the world, but love means two people are the world. In friendship, one plus one equals two; in love, one plus one is still one.

——Tagore

Friendship will never endure long and frequent advice. ——Robert Lind

To make good friends, if the friendship is to last, they must be humble and considerate to each other.

——Chaucer

It is unreliable to make friends with powerful people. ——Phaedrus

The most important thing to do to deal with the fear of external enemies is to make as many friends as possible; for those who cannot be friends, at least avoid making enemies with them; if you cannot even do this, then Avoid interacting with them as much as possible and alienate them for your own benefit. ——Epicurus

May friendship have no other purpose than to seek spiritual deepening. ——Kahlil Gibran

Those who can only share happiness with you but not suffer with you have lost one of the keys to the seven doors of heaven.

——Kahlil Gibran

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

The so-called care is the consideration for others. Consideration is not pretentious, but subtle and subtle. ——Suzuki Kenji

Before you trust someone, eat a lot of salt with him first. ——Anonymous

Friends flatter each other, friendship is worthless. ——Valois

Everyone benefits from being known. ——Moloya

It is a wise move to use the refined oil of "Politeness" on the mechanical device of "Friendship".

——Collett

The closest friends are often the enemies who make the biggest mistakes. ——Joy Macy

Friends should abide by the following rules: do not ask others to behave shamelessly, and you should refuse it if asked. ——Cicero

It is often our friends who make us fall. ——Hugo

When you are in an important position, you will not be willing to receive friends; one day when he is frustrated and sad, he will need the sympathy of friends. ——Sadie

Those who seek love will get love; those who sacrifice friendship will have friends; those who work hard to create happiness will have happiness.

——Moroa

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

Suspicious people never make good friends. Friendship requires total trust: either total trust or total distrust. If faith needs to be continuously analyzed, calibrated, sealed, and restored, then faith can only increase the pain of love in life, but it will never gain the power and help generated by love... But what if faith is misused? It doesn't matter: I would rather be deceived by a false friend than doubt a true friend.

——Moloya

A chance, a hope, a word, will show the congeniality of soul and character. A gratifying compulsion, or a firm will, makes this nascent sympathy gradually grow and become final. We can reach the point where our hearts are in harmony with each other, which is better than the degree of spiritual harmony with outsiders, and can be far better than that of flesh and blood relatives.

——Moloya

It is impossible to say the exact moment when the friendship was formed. Just like water dripping into a container, it is the last drop that makes the container overflow; the same is true with many friendly words and deeds, it is the last drop that makes people's hearts connect and friendship grows. ——Boswell

Friendship is the same as love. You will only feel happy if you live among friends with whom you can get along naturally without pretense and lies. ——Moloya

Making friends can produce great power. ——Xu Teli

When two people talk, one person can listen attentively. However, the three people could not talk to each other about this most serious matter in the world that should be studied deeply. ——Emerson

Only in loneliness and boredom can a person feel the benefits of living with people who are thoughtful.

——Rousseau

Don’t rely on gifts to gain friends. You must devote your sincere love and learn how to win someone's heart in the right way. ——Socrates

A confidant is more valuable than any doctor. ——Dagatu

Every betrayal of a friend increases our trust in the power of money.

——William Shenstone

Of course we find it interesting when we meet reasonable people; when we meet eccentric people, we just want to relax and have fun. ——Molière

Never visit a friend at a time of humiliation. ——Simon Ben Elicharabi

The hardest thing to find and the easiest thing to lose in the world is friends. -- Webster Raleigh

Of all efforts to ensure lifelong happiness, the most important is to make friends. ——Epicurus

Wherever I find friends, I will be reborn. —— Rabindranath Tagore

To have one friend in a lifetime is enough, to have two friends is to be many, and to have three friends is rare.

——Hen Adams

He who knows the danger but does not tell it is an enemy. ——Goethe

It is wrong to trust everyone or distrust everyone. ——Seneca

You can’t just expose other people’s past mistakes without respecting the person they are now.

——Oss