QuoteQuest“The pursuits of commerce would be as admirable as they are profitable if they were not subject to so great risks: and so, likewise, of banking, if it was always honestly conducted. For our ancestors considered, and so ordained in their laws, that, while the thief should be cast in double damages, the usurer should make four-fold restitution.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Cato the Elder
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Elder, Cato the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cato the Elder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder
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