As the saying goes, a good bird chooses a tree to perch, a gentleman chooses a good man and makes friends, a virtuous minister chooses a master and a good man, and a friend chooses a virtuous man.
There is often no shortage of classic dating sentences in the classics, such as the Analects and Zhou Yi.
The classic sentences about "friends" in the Analects are:
1] Have friends from afar? (On the Study of Language).
2] Make friends and don't believe it? (On the Study of Language).
3] Make friends and keep your word. (On the Study of Language).
4] Yan Ping Zhongshan is good at making friends with people, and respects them for a long time. (The Analects of Gongye Chang).
5] The gift of friends, although chariots and horses, is not sacrificial meat, and is not worshipped. (The Analects of the Township Party).
6] A gentleman will meet friends with words, and he will help others with friends. (The Analects of the Path).
7] Friends are cut and careful, brothers Yiyi. (The Analects of the Path).
8] The beneficiary has three friends, and the loser has three friends. Friendship is straight, friendship is forgiving, friends are more heard, and it is beneficial. Friends are friendly, friendly and soft, friends are good, and they are damaged. (The Analects of Ji).
In Zhou Yili, the classic sayings about making friends are:
1] Need to hexagram on the six clouds: "Into the cave, there are three uninvited guests coming, respect it, and it will be auspicious." (One more friend, one more way to live).
2] Compare the hexagram ** cloud: "Compare it to the outside, Zhenji." Xiang said: "Outside than the virtuous, from the top." (In the company of high-ranking people, looking at the outstanding elements, the tide rises and the boat rises).
3] Hexagram 63 clouds: "Compare the bandits." The elephant said: "Isn't it hurt to be a bandit?" (When you make friends with people who don't care about it, it's always you who hurts: be cautious of making friends, and far from friends).
4] Hexagram 62 clouds: "Compare it from the inside, Zhenji." The elephant said: "Compared with the inside, it is not self-defeating." "(Compare yourself with your colleagues, role models are all around you).
5] The same hexagram says: "Heaven and fire, the same person, the gentleman distinguishes things by the same race." He said: "Only a gentleman is the will to be able to pass through the world." (Like-minded, like-minded people do not take mountains and seas as far).
6] The hexagram says: "A gentleman teaches with a friend." (Treat each other equally, such as cutting, such as learning, such as grinding).
7] Zhongfu 92: I have a good lord, and I am with you. (If you have wine to drink with good friends: persuade you to drink more wine, and there is no one in Yangguan in the west).
8] The Qiangua text spreads: "A gentleman learns to gather, asks to argue, is lenient to live, and benevolent is to act." Yiyun: "Respond with the same voice, seek each other with the same breath; When the water is wet, the fire is dry; The clouds are from the dragon, and the wind is from the tiger. The saints are the ones who make them, and all things are from heaven and earth, and they are from their kind. (Seeking the same breath, smelling the same).
9] The system is passed on: "The two are concentric, and their profits are cut off; With one heart, it stinks like an orchid. Yiyun: "Fang gathers by like, and things are divided by groups." "(Fighting tiger brothers, going into battle father and son soldiers).
10] The system of words is passed on: "The gentleman settles down and then moves, changes his heart and then speaks, and determines his hand and then asks." The gentleman cultivates these three, so all of them are also. Danger to move, ** not with also. Fear to speak, ** should not. There is no exchange, ** do not ask for it. If you don't do it, you will be the one who hurts it. (Three Principles of Friendship": Settle down and then move, change their hearts and then speak, and set their friends and then ask).
In a word, the two of them are concentric, their profits are golden, and the words of the same heart are as smelly as orchids, the same people are in the wild, and the benefits are involved in the river, and only the gentleman is the ambition to be able to pass the world.