This need of balance may show itself in a hundred different ways. Where kindness compulsively overrules judgement, for instance, there may be a price to pay. And where kindness keeps beggars in self-chosen or socially enforced idleness, it may harm them, whereas where it finds and fits them for useful work, it must surely help them.

-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practicies Involved > Chapter 5: Balance the Psyche > # 152