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Comment author: Epictetus 28 February 2015 07:20:00PM *  0 points [-]

Human laws aim to induce human beings to virtue little by little, not all at once. And so the laws do not immediately impose on the many imperfect citizens what already belongs to virtuous citizens, namely, that citizens abstain from everything evil. Otherwise, the imperfect citizens, unable to endure those commands, would erupt into worse evil things.

-Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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