Don't associate with the low. Associate with admirable friends. Associate with the best. In the Dhamma revealed by the noble ones, the wise person always delights. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape the wood.
The wise control themselves. They, the good, don't chatter in hopes of favor or gains. When touched now by pleasure, now pain, the wise give no sign of high or low. These others simply scurry along this shore. But those who practice Dhamma in line with the well-taught Dhamma, will cross over the realm of Death so hard to transcend.