When making friends, you should especially choose carefully.

Even if you are classmates, you should not distinguish between close friends and distant friends.

——Zhu Xi's "Goddess"

You must choose your friends carefully. Although they are all classmates, there is no difference between closeness and distance.

2

People in the world need gold to make friends.

If you don’t have too much gold, your friendship will not be deep.

Even if we promise each other for a while,

it will be a leisurely journey in the end.

——Zhang Wei, "Inscribed on the Master of Chang'an Wall"

Nowadays, people in the world must use money to make friends. If the money is not enough, the friendship will not be deep enough. Even if I agree to you for a while, I won't take it seriously, and in the end we will still be strangers. This sentence highlights the human nature of making friends at that time.

3

To make friends, you must be better than yourself.

It is better to be like me than not.

——Anonymous "Zengguang Xianwen"

To make friends, you must make friends with people who exceed yourself in terms of moral character and talents. There is no need to associate with people who are almost the same as yourself.

4 Make virtuous friends,

never have righteous friends.

——"The Analects of Confucius"

Make friends with those who are moral and stay away from friends who are immoral.

5

Friends are friendly, friendly and gentle,

Friends are sycophantic, which is a loss.

——"The Analects of Confucius·Ji Shi Chapter 16"

Getting along with those hypocritical people, getting along with those people who are divided into crocodiles, and making friends with those people who are smooth-talking are all Harmful to oneself.