friendship

O heart, sit only with one who truly understands the heart.

Mountain never meets mountain, but person always meets person again.

One hand alone makes no sound — cooperation is needed.

To eat someone's salt and then break their saltcellar — the ultimate betrayal of hospitality.

Whoever sits with the wicked will be judged by their ways, even if untouched by their nature.

Peace of mind, safety, health, sufficient means, and a good-natured, well-behaved companion.

Ask the perfumer about my grief and pain; ask the sick one about the length of the night.

Plant the tree of friendship, for it bears the heart's desire; uproot the sapling of enmity, for it brings countless grief.

The secret we told no stranger and never will, we tell our friend, for a true friend keeps a secret.

The sky's brief ten-day favor is but a fable and a spell — count it your chance, friend, to do good for friends.

We all drank the same wine at life's gathering — some simply grew drunk a round or two before us.

The excellence of my companion left its mark on me — otherwise I am but the same clay I always was.

One day in the bathhouse, a piece of fragrant clay came from my beloved's hand to mine.

Do not befriend an unfaithful companion — this treacherous world is not fit for true friendship.

To hurt one's friends is folly, though the penance for a broken oath is easy.

He took hold of him as a blind man takes hold of his guide, until through him he became seeing, capable, and great.