A wise man keeps wide company; a fool joins a clique.
A Confucian proverb contrasting the virtuous person's broad, impartial associations with the petty person's narrow, self-serving cliques. Used in formal or literary contexts to comment on character and social behavior.
The saying 'A wise man keeps wide company; a fool joins a clique' is well known as a passage from the Analects.
He always tries to form factions, but we must not forget that a wise man keeps wide company while a fool joins a clique.