1. Don’t forget the common people’s friendship. ——Li Yanshou

2. Except for a true friend, no medicine can heal the heart. To a true friend you can convey your sorrows, joys, fears, hopes, doubts, remonstrances, and anything else that weighs on your heart. ——Bacon

3. Many people who appear to be friends are not actually friends, and many who are friends do not appear to be friends. ——Greece

4. Enjoying a small group of like-minded friends in society is the basic principle of human social attributes. ——Edmund Burke

5. A friend in need is a friend. ——Lenin

6. 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)

7. A person who does not even have a good friend is not worth living at all. ——Democritus

8. People who make temporary acquaintances cannot be regarded as friends. ——Bacon

9. If you want to make good friends, if you want the friendship to last, you must be humble and considerate to each other. (Chaucer)

10. Friends are like melons, you will get one after a hundred attempts. ——France

11. A friend is a gift you give to yourself. —— Stevenson

12. Friends are the sunshine in life. ——Ibsen

13. Friends are gifts given to yourself by yourself. —— Stevenson

14. The older the friends, the better, and the older the wine, the better it tastes. ——John Ray

15. The difficulty of the meaning of a friend is that it has ever-changing meanings. ——Sanmao

16. The meaning of a friend is to be straight and upright in order to ascend to the good path. ——Xu Qian

17. Friends in their heyday are worthless. ——Henry Adams

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

19. The most commonly used noun in the world is friend, but the hardest to get is friend. ——France

20. It is easy to get ten thousand taels of gold, but it is hard to find a close friend. ——Cao Xueqin

21. It is not difficult to die for a friend, but the difficulty is to find a friend worth dying for. ——UK

22. We think about how to maintain health, how to accumulate wealth, how to strengthen the roof, and how to prepare clothes; but smart people think about how to choose the most precious thing-friends. (Emerson)

23. Those who act in the same way will become the same, and they will follow each other thousands of miles away; ——Huainanzi

24. Brothers may not be friends, but friends are often like brothers. ——Franklin

25. A good friend is often obtained in adversity. ——Latin America

26. If you don’t have good friends, you won’t see your own shortcomings. ——Soviet Union

27. People with friends are like a broad plain, while people without friends are like a narrow palm. ——Mongolian

28. A true friend is one soul conceived in two bodies. ——Aristotle

29. True friends do not talk about friendship. They do not ask each other for anything for the sake of friendship, but do everything they can for each other. ——(Russia) Belinsky

30. Real friends will help when they are in trouble, and false friends will cry out when they are in trouble. ——Kirgiz people

31. A loyal friend is the incarnation of Bodhisattva. ——Napoleon

32. People who are surrounded by good friends are much happier than those who are surrounded by enemies. ——Mrs. Carnegie