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That we are to live with the good, but to avoid the evil.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: "Bring not the impious man into the habitation of the righteous." ¹ Also in the same, in Ecclesiasticus: "Let righteous men be thy guests." ² And again: "The faithful friend is a medicine of life and of immortality." ³ Also in the same place: "Be thou far from the man who has the power to slay, and thou shalt not suspect fear." ⁴ Also in the same place: "Blessed is he who findeth a true friend, and who speaketh righteousness to the listening ear." ⁵ Also in the same place: "Hedge thine ears with thorns, and hear not a wicked tongue." ⁶ Also in the seventeenth Psalm: "With the righteous Thou shalt be justified; and with the innocent man Thou shalt be innocent; and with the froward man Thou shalt be froward." ⁷ Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Evil communications corrupt good dispositions." ⁸