Question 1: Make good friends. (or: making friends is more important than morality)

Question 2: Confucius thinks it is beneficial to make friends with upright, honest and knowledgeable friends; It is harmful to make flattering, hypocritical and boastful friends, which is the requirement of friends' personality when making friends. You can be more cautious when choosing friends and make good friends. Mencius believes that making friends must be equal, and we cannot rely on our own superior conditions. This is what we ask ourselves when we pay attention to making friends, and it also helps to make more useful friends.

Question 1:

Analysis of test questions: Confucius believes that "it is beneficial to make friends frankly, forgive and learn more", that is, to make honest, upright and well-informed friends. Mencius believed that "friends are also friends with virtue", that is, making friends is just because of his virtue. It can be seen that they all think that they should make good friends.

Question 2:

Analysis of test questions: Confucius thinks that making friends has "beneficial friends" and "harmful friends", so he focuses on the requirements of "friends"; Mencius believed that making friends should be "not long, expensive and brotherly", and he paid more attention to his own requirements.

Reference 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, people who kiss up to their faces and slander them behind their backs, and flatterers.

To know friends, we don't depend on age, high status or noble brothers. Making friends is because friends have good virtues, and you can't have any thoughts of relying on them.