In all cases, however, the forgiveness of the injured party shall acquit the agents; and then they shall only be purified, and remain in exile for a year.
Enough of actions that are involuntary, or done in anger; let us proceed to voluntary and premeditated actions.

The great source of voluntary crime is the desire of money, which is begotten by evil education; and this arises out of the false praise of riches, common both among Hellenes and barbarians; they think that to be the first of goods which is really the third.

For the body is not for the sake of wealth, but wealth for the body, as the body is for the soul.

If this were better understood, the crime of murder, of which avarice is the chief cause, would soon cease among men.

Next to avarice, ambition is a source of crime, troublesome to the ambitious man himself, as well as to the chief men of the state.