Confucius said, "There are three friends who benefit and three friends who lose. Friends are straightforward, friends trust, and friends are more knowledgeable, which is beneficial. If you are friendly, you will be soft, and if you are friendly, you will be hurt. " ("The Analects? Ji's Chapter)

Notes

① Damage: damage. 2 trust: faithfulness. 3 it is easy: flattery. 4 kindness and softness: compliment in person and slander behind. ⑤ Toilet: rhetoric.

Translation

Confucius said, "There are three kinds of beneficial friends and three kinds of harmful friends. It is beneficial to make friends with honest people, honest people and well-informed people. It is harmful to make friends with flatterers, with people who flatter in person and slander behind their backs, and with people who flatter. "