"A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and friends to support benevolence" is translated as: "A gentleman uses articles and knowledge to gather friends, and uses friends to help me cultivate benevolence."

This sentence The words come from "The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan".

According to "The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan", Zengzi said: "A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and friends to help people." Zengzi believed that people with high moral cultivation are willing to get acquainted with knowledgeable people and study with each other. Cultural knowledge, discuss the philosophy of life together, improve moral quality, and cultivate benevolence. This is the Confucian view of making friends, which advocates making friends through literature, sharing the same interests, promoting each other, and making progress together.