The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.


The Politics (ed. Oxford Paperbacks, 1998) - ISBN: 9780192833938

Aristotle Quotes

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency ...

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency ...

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency ...

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency ...