The famous aphorisms about making friends are as follows:

1. Ten thousand taels of gold are easy to get, but a close friend is hard to find. ——Cao Xueqin

2. A person who doesn’t even have a good friend is not worth living at all. ——Democritus

3. Since I cannot find a friend who is completely devoted to me, I must have friends who can overcome my inertia with their driving force. ——Rousseau

4. Those who praise us behind our back are our good friends. ——Cervantes

5. Friendship is as pure as the morning fog. Flattery cannot win friendship. Friendship can only be consolidated with loyalty. ——Marx

6. If you want to have friends, you must first have enough friends. ——Emerson

7. To make friends, you must make friends with loyal people. Just as a smart doctor must check the pulse and examine the root of the disease before treating a disease, when making friends, you must also test the character of the other person, otherwise it will be dangerous. ——Ibn Mugafa

8. It is better to choose friends carefully and to discard them even more carefully. ——Franklin

9. When people help me, I will never forget it; when I help others, I won’t forget it. ——Hua Luogeng

10. The best friend is the kind of person who doesn’t like to talk too much, can talk to you silently and is in close communication with you. ——Gorky

11. When two people are of the same mind, their sharpness can break through metal; if they speak of the same mind, their fragrance is like orchids. ——"Yi Xici"

12. Untrustworthy friends are more hateful than enemies. ——Shakespeare

13. Those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black. ——Fu Xuan

14. The taste is sweet but easy to spoil. You still know at the end of the year that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.

——Xin Qiji