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Aristotle: The Nichomachean Ethics
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Virtue is a mean state between the extremes of excess and deficiency. This mean varies from person to person, so there are no hard and fast rules as to how best to avoid vice.
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Aristotle: De Re Publica
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Scipio Africanus Minor
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Cicero: The Republic and the Laws
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Law was not thought up by the intelligence of human beings, not is it some kind of resolution passed by communities, but rather an eternal force which rules the world by the wisdom of its commands and prohibitions… That original and final law is the intelligence of God, who ordains or forbids everything by reason.
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Augustine: Political Writings
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God does not allow evil to exist so much as we choose it by our actions, deeds, and words. Later, he came to the conclusion that it is impossible for us to understand the mind of God, and therefore we cannot come to a proper comprehension of why suffering exists.
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Einhard: Two Lives of Charlemagne
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about Charlemagne's amazing wisdom, his charity and his cunning. He rewards hard work and loyalty by granting land and bishoprics; and he punishes greed and disloyalty by either executing the offenders or by exiling them to a monastery
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Aquinas: On Law, Morality, and Politics
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a certain rule and measure of acts whereby man is induced to act or is restrained from acting. Because the rule and measure of human actions is reason, law has an essential relation to reason; in the first place to divine reason; in the second place to human reason, when it acts correctly, in accordance with the purpose or final cause implanted in it by God.
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