Conscience is a thing that, when it condemns a person, is truly terrifying, whether the person is an adult or a child. — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Since we are all merely mortals, it is better to keep friendship at a moderate level and not intrude too deeply into each other's spiritual lives. — Euripides. Friendship can never be a transaction; on the contrary, it requires the most absolute disinterestedness. — M. A. Murua
True friendship can only be based on the union of similar temperaments. — Beethoven
Goodness is the sunlight of the spiritual world. — Victor Hugo, France
As long as you are pure and honest, representing diligence, and think more of others, you can be confident of success in life. — Mark Twain, USA
One should help a friend precisely when they are in trouble, not make idle remarks after things are already hopeless. — Aesop, Greece
In my past life, friendship was like a lamp that illuminated my soul, giving my existence a little bit of luster. — Ba Jin
A kind heart is the sun. — Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs
People with kind, loyal hearts, full of love, constantly bring happiness to the world. — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
A handshake in a crowd of ten thousand leaves my sleeves fragrant for three years. — Gong Zizhen, Qing Dynasty, China
Be a kind person and seek happiness for the masses. — Maxim Gorky, USSR
The most spacious thing in the world is the sea, but the sky is more spacious than the sea, and the human heart is more spacious than the sky. — Victor Hugo, France
Friendship forged through self-restraint is more enduring than friendship bought with money. — Reagan
Everything about a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul, and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov, Russia
The more goodness in life, the more interest in life itself. The two are inseparable and mutually complementary. — Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Friendship, like the fragrance of flowers, is better when it is faint. The fainter the scent, the more it is cherished and the longer it lasts. — Xu Murong
Kind-hearted and imaginative people are more easily united than cold and cruel ones. — Johnson
A cowardly friend, after betraying you, becomes the most ferocious enemy. — Edmund Spenser
Sincere concern brings a joy in the heart like morning birds facing the spring sun. — Maxim Gorky, USSR
Love can make the world go round. — Charles Dickens, UK
A sincere beginning leads to a beautiful ending. — Victor Hugo, Louis Brasse
Friendship that grows inch by inch like an oak tree is more reliable than friendship that springs up suddenly like a melon vine. — Charlotte Brontë
Friendship that grows inch by inch like an oak tree is more reliable than friendship that springs up suddenly like a melon vine. — Charlotte Brontë
Compassion is the highest virtue in all morality. — Francis Bacon, UK
Do not take the medals out of your own pocket and lend them to your friends; that is an insult to them. — Rabindranath Tagore
Kind-hearted and imaginative people are more easily united than cold and cruel ones. — Johnson
The greatest effort in friendship is not to show our flaws to a friend, but to help them see their own flaws. — La Rochefoucauld. Do not reveal your heart until you have thoroughly understood the other person. — Balzac
If a person has no conscience, no matter how clever they are, they cannot survive! — Maxim Gorky, My Universities
Since we are all merely mortals, it is better to keep friendship at a moderate level and not intrude too deeply into each other's spiritual lives. — Euripides. Friendship can never be a transaction; on the contrary, it requires the most absolute disinterestedness. — M. A. Murua
To show disdain for the joy of others is to bully them. — Marguerite Yourcenar
Friendship is often formed by a common interest that is easier for two people to achieve than for one alone; this relationship is only pure when there is mutual satisfaction. — Strindberg
It is only beneficial and harmless to eat when you are hungry; similarly, it is only beneficial and harmless to interact with others when you have love in your heart. — Leo Tolstoy
