Proverbs:

A clear bargain, a dear friend.
Italian
A fair weather friend changes with the wind.
Spanish
A faithful friend is the true image of the deity.
Napoleon
A false friend and a shadow attend only when the sun shines.
Franklin
A false friend has honey in his mouth, gall in his heart.
German
A false friend is worse than an open enemy.
German
A foe to God was never true friend to man.
Young
A friend at one’s back is a safe bridge.
Dutch
A friend is better than money in the purse.
Dutch
A friend is often best known by his loss.
German
A friend is one who jumps down and puts on the drag when he finds you are going down hill too fast.
Punch
A friend is to be taken with his faults.
Portuguese
A friend—one soul, two bodies.
Oriental
A friend should bear a friend’s infirmities.
Shakespeare
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
Spanish
A friend to my table and wine is no good neighbor.
French
A friend’s dinner is soon dressed.
Dutch
A friend’s faults should be known but not abhorred.
Portuguese
A friend’s faults may be noticed but not blamed.
Danish
A good friend is better than silver and gold.
Dutch
A good-natured friend is often only an enemy in disguise.
Punch
A plaster house, a horse at grass,
A friend in words, are all mere grass.
Dutch
A table friend is changeable.
French
A thousand friends are few, one foe many.
Turkish
A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy.
Fielding
A true friend is above all things sure capital.
German
A true friend is better than a relation.
Turkish
A true friend is the nectar of life.
Tamil
Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
Publius Syrus
Ah! how good it feels, the hand of an old friend.
Longfellow
An old friend is better than two new ones.
German, Russian
An untried friend is like an uncracked nut.
Russian
Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.
Spanish
Be blind to the failings of your friends but never to their vices.
Tacitus
Before you make a friend eat a peck of salt with him.
Scotch
Better a good friend than silver and gold.
German
Better an open enemy than a false friend.
Danish
Better foes than hollow friends.
Shakespeare
Better have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your purse.
French
Between two friends, a notary and two witnesses.
Spanish
Beware of a reconciled friend as of a devil.
Spanish
Defend me from my friends, I can defend myself from my enemies.
Marechal Villars
Desertion of a calumniated friend is an immoral action.
Dr. Johnson
Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend.
German
Everybody’s friend is everybody’s fool.
German, Dutch, Danish
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
Bible
Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who is not.
Spanish
Familiar paths and old friends are the best.
German
Friends agree best at a distance.
French
Friends and mules fail us at hard passes.
Gallician
Friends are far from a man who is unfortunate.
Latin
Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why?
To find one good you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet
Friends become foes and foes are reconciled.
Latin
Friends living far away are no friends.
Greek
Friends tie their purse with a cobweb thread.
Italian
Give out that you have many friends and believe that you have but few.
French
Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends and quickly to their misfortunes.
Chilo
God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself.
Italian
He is my friend who grinds at my mill.
Spanish, Portuguese
He is no friend that eats his own by himself and mine with me.
Portuguese
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Tennyson
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.
Portuguese
He is a friend at sneezing time, the most that can be got from him is a “God bless you.”
Italian
He that trusts a faithless friend has a good witness against him.
Spanish
He who for his own sake would expose a friend deserves not to have one.
Rousseau
He who has a thousand friends, has not a friend to spare,
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Persian
He who has many friends has no friends.
Aristotle
He who is his own friend is a friend to all men.
Seneca
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Bible
It is as bad to have too many friends as no friend at all.
Latin
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy, and one of our enemies a friend.
Bias
It is important but not easy to distinguish a true friend from an agreeable enemy.
Petrarch
It is no small grief to a good nature to try his friends.
Euripides
Let him who is wretched and beggared try everybody and then his friend.
Italian
Let not one enemy be little in thy eyes, nor a thousand friends be many in thy sight.
Hebrew
Make no friend of thy thrall.
Northmen
Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbor.
Danish
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
Plautus
Old friends are best.
Selden
On the choice of friends our good or evil name depends.
Gray
The friends thou hast and their adoption tried,
Grapple to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Shaksespeare
The goods of friends are in common.
Pythagoras
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Plautu
The voice is powerful of a faithful friend.
Homer
We must ask what is proper from our friends.
Cicero
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