Such men will never be a burden on you.

Such men will never be a burden on you. On the other hand, they will be a source of help and strength to you at all times. They will be friends to you and strangers to your enemies. Choose such men alone for companionship both in privacy and in the public.

Even among these, show preference to them who have a habitual regard for truth however trying to you at times their truth may prove to be, and who, ( 12 ) offer you no encouragement in the display of tendencies which God does not like his friends to develop. Keep close to you the…