"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her."
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Source: Maxims and Reflections. Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 246, 1998.
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