Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat h…"

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Early Modern · Faust, German literature

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From 'Elective Affinities'

Date: 1809

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