In friendship, it should be known, are six virtues; they (friends) are delighted in (their friend's) prosperity and pained in their adversity; if a man asks for anything that ought not to be asked for, it is at once given.
सौहृदे वै षड् गुणा वेदितव्याः प्रिये हृष्यन्त्यप्रिये च व्यथन्ते। स्यादात्मनः सुचिरं याचते यो ददात्ययाच्यमपि देयं खलु स्यात्। नभ्यर्थितश्चार्हति शुद्धभावः॥