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Actions which should be leniently treated are cases
for equity; errors, wrong acts, and misfortunes, must not be thought deserving
of the same penalty. Misfortunes are all such things as are unexpected and not
vicious; errors are not unexpected, but are not vicious; wrong acts are such as
might be expected and vicious, for acts committed through desire arise from
vice.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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