Visit friends in times of trouble rather than those who are currently in the limelight. - Kellen
Even if the whole world hates you and believes you to be wicked, you will not lack friends as long as you have a clear conscience. - Charlotte Brontë
The depth of friendship and the openness between friends should not be measured by the length of time. - Balzac
When life brings great sorrow and trouble, friendship should serve as an effective comfort. - Balzac
Friendship is a spiritual rapport, a connection of minds, and a union of virtues. - Penn William
I do not wish to compare our friendship to an iron chain; for the chain may be rusted by rain or broken by a fallen tree. - Penn William
The greatest effort of friendship is not to show a friend our flaws, but to help them see their own. - La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is the intercourse formed between equals, free from interests, whereas fraud is a base relationship between tyrants and slaves. - Goldsmith
A friendship based on ulterior motives is not true friendship, but a net cast into the ocean of life, which ultimately yields nothing. - Kahlil Gibran
May God spare us from making fools our friends, for an excessively attentive fool is more dangerous than any enemy. - Krylov
Those who unite by power part when the power is lost. - Shiji
Those who join by status sever when the status falls; those who join by profit scatter when the profit is gone. - Wang Tong A man becomes what he is by the friends he keeps. - Euripides
He who tries to be friends with everyone is the friend of no one. - Pfeiffer
The gentleman associates with friends through literature and assists benevolence through friends. - Zengzi
