6
Let those who are friendly with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand.
7
When you gain friends, gain them through testing, and do not trust them hastily.
8
For there are friends who are such when it suits them, but they will not stand by you in time of trouble.
9
And there are friends who change into enemies, and tell of the quarrel to your disgrace.
10
And there are friends who sit at your table, but they will not stand by you in time of trouble.
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