“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
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