Book 1
12.11
And those who have often been undetected or have escaped punishment; and those who have often been unsuccessful; for in such cases, as in actual warfare, there are always men ready to return to the fight.
12.12
And all who hope for pleasure and profit at once, while the pain and the loss come later; such are the intemperate, intemperance being concerned with all things that men long for.
12.13
And when, on the contrary, the pain or the loss is immediate, while the pleasure and the profit are later and more lastingMore distant (Jebb).; for temperate and wiser men pursue such aims.
12.14
And those who may possibly be thought to have acted by chance or from necessity, from some natural impulse or from habit, in a word, to have committed an error rather than a crime.
12.15
And those who hope to obtain indulgence; and all those who are in need, which is of two kinds; for men either need what is necessary, as the poor, or what is superfluous, as the wealthy.
12.16
And those who are highly esteemed or held in great contempt; the former will not be suspected, the latter no more than they are already.
12.17
In such a frame of mind men attempt to do wrong, and the objects of their wrongdoing are men and circumstances of the following kind.With a comma or colon after τὰ τοιαῦτα; without these render: those who possess such things as they . . . Those who possess what they themselves lack, things either necessary, or superfluous, or enjoyable;
12.18
both those who are far off and those who are near, for in the one case the gain is speedy, in the other reprisals are slow, as if, for instance, Greeks were to plunder Carthaginians.Who were too far off to retaliate.
12.19
And those who never take precautions and are never on their guard, but are confiding; for all these are easily taken unawares. And those who are indolent; for it requires a man who takes pains to prosecute. And those who are bashful; for they are not likely to fight about money.
