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

95. 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.”⁴⁵⁷³ Also in the same, in Ecclesiasticus: “Let righteous men be thy guests.”⁴⁵⁷⁴ And again: “The faithful friend is a medicine of life and of immortality.”⁴⁵⁷⁵ Also in the same place:  “Be thou far from the man who has the power to slay, and thou shalt not suspect fear.”⁴⁵⁷⁶ Also in the same place:  “Blessed is he who findeth a true friend, and who speaketh righteousness to the listening ear.”⁴⁵⁷⁷ Also in the same place:  “Hedge thine ears with thorns, and hear not a wicked tongue.”⁴⁵⁷⁸  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.”⁴⁵⁷⁹ Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “Evil communications corrupt good dispositions.”⁴⁵⁸⁰