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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

— George Santayana

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

— Baltasar Gracian

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

— Frank Crane

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

— Aristotle

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

— John Gay

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

— Diogenes

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

— Saadi

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

— Rafael Nadal

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

— John Philpot Curran

✗Opposing Perspectives

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

— Tacitus