The document contains short phrases from different countries about friendship and adversity. It states that prosperity makes friends while adversity tests them, like birds of the same feather flocking together. It also notes that an evil friend can hurt the mind worse than a wild beast hurting the body, and that finding a good friend can require trying many melons like trying many people.

1. around the world... Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them… Birds of a feather flock together.

2. We are from India. Friends and books should be few but good...

3. We are from Bangladesh... Birds of a feather flock together...

4. We are from Birmania... An evil friend is worse than a wild beast, a wild beast will hurt your body, an evil friend will hurt your mind.

5. We are from Germany... Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

6. We are from Ethiopia... Friends are like melons, shall I tell you why? to find a good one, you must a hundred try.

7. We are from France... Men are known by the company they keep...

8. We are from Peru... In prosperity it is easy to find a friend, in adversity nothing is so difficult...

9. We are from Mexico... Birds of a feather flock together...

10. We are from China... No love, no friendship, can cross the pathway of our life without leaving some mark on it forever.