"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
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Source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.276
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