朋友贈言

what is a friend? a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

--aristotle

什麼是朋友？兩人同心。

--亞里士多德

a friend is, as it were, a second self.

--cicero

一個朋友是另一個自我。

--西塞羅

this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

--francis bacon

朋友之間交往產生的結果是：一份快樂兩人分享，能變成雙份快樂；一份痛苦二人分擔，只剩下一半痛苦。

--培根

a friend in need is a friend indeed.

--john ray

患難識知己。

--雷伊

in prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

--john churton collins

昌盛時，我們的朋友認識我們；逆境時，我們認識我們的朋友。

--科林斯

a faithful friend is beyond price, and there is no weighing of his goodness.

忠實的朋友如無價之寶，他的好處無法估量。

a friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.

朋友是你敢於和他坦然相處的人。

*稱頌友誼

friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

--john evelyn

友誼是把全世界所有的心連在一起的一根金線。

--約翰·伊夫林

what though youth gave love and roses, age still leaves us friends and wine.

--thomas moore

青春賦予我們愛情和玫瑰，年歲帶給我們朋友和美酒。

--穆爾

true friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

--charles colton

真正的友誼猶如人體的健康，只有當已失去時纔會意識到它的價值。

--科爾頓

true friendship foresees the need of others rather than proclaims its own.

--andre maurois

真正的友誼能預見別人的需要，而不是宣稱自己的需要。

--莫洛亞

two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

--jean de la bruyere

如果兩個人對於彼此的小缺點不能原諒，友誼便不能持久。

--拉布呂耶爾

though time may change so many things, the happiness that friendship brings is never changed.

儘管歲月使萬物變遷，但友誼帶給我們的快樂永遠不會變。

friendship is love with understanding.

友誼是基於理解的愛。

without confidence there is no friendship.

友誼源於信任。