'No, I don't hate him.'
'Do you dislike him?'
'I can't say I like him.'
'Do you love him as yourself?'
'Oh, come! come! no one does that!'
'Then no one is to be trusted when he thinks, however firmly, that he is all right, and his neighbour all wrong, in any matter between them.'
'But I don't say I am all right, and he is all wrong; there may be something to urge on his side: what I say is, that I am more in the right than he.'
'This is not fundamentally a question of things: it is a question of condition, of spiritual relation and action, towards your neighbour. If in yourself you were all right towards him, you could do him no wrong. Let it be with the individual dispute as it may, you owe him something that you do not pay him, as certainly as you think he owes you something he will not pay you.'
'He would take immediate advantage of me if I owned that.'
'So much the worse for him. Until you are fair to him, it does not matter to you whether he is unfair to you or not.'