Ẹgbẹ́ búburú ní ńba ìwà rere jẹ́.

Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí

Character is degraded by association.

Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó

Owomoyela: "The reputation of one's company rubs off on one" Standard parental speech to a young person about their friends.

Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀

This is close enough to 1 Corinthians 15:33 that its status deserves the caution the corpus applies to entry 38 of `yoruba-owe-proverbs`: after a century and a half of Yorùbá Christianity, a proverb matching a biblical sentiment may be indigenous, may be naturalised from scripture, or may be both, and confident assertions in either direction are unsafe. Ẹgbẹ́ is the age-set or peer group, an actual Yorùbá institution rather than a loose word for company, which slightly favours indigenous formation. Confidence on origin: contested.

Nínú àkójọpọ̀ yìí

• Ìwà lẹwà.Character is beauty.
• Ìwà rere lẹ̀ṣọ́ èèyàn; ehín funfun lẹ̀ṣọ́ ẹ̀rín.Good character is a person's best adornment; white teeth are the adornment of a smile.
• Ìwà lòrìṣà; bí a ti hù ú sí ní ńgbeni sí.Character is a god; just as one lives it, so it succors one.
• Ìwà lẹ̀sìn.Character is worship.
• Ìwà kì í fi oníwà sílẹ̀.Character will not forsake its owner.
• Tìwà tìwà là ńràjò.It is in the company of one's character that one goes on a journey.