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Politics [Πολιτικά], Book 2, ch. 8 / 1269a.9 [tr. Jowett (1885)] - Aristotle | WIST Quotations
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Alt. trans. "Nor is it,…