I will explain this by reading a passage by Alessandro Manzoni from The Betrothed.
Here it is.
With ideas donna Prassede behaved as they say one must do with friends: she had few; but to those few, she was very fond. Among the few, there were by misfortune many of the crooked ones; and they were not the ones she was least fond of.
If becoming friends with blameless people may involve some risk, becoming devoted to ideas may prove disastrous.
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Don’t you think so?