Kitap 1
11.29
Similarly, since amusement, every kind of relaxation, and laughter are pleasant, ridiculous things—men, words, or deeds—must also be pleasant. The ridiculous has been discussed separately in the Poetics.Only the definition appears in the existing text; The ridiculous is an error, painless and non-destructive ugliness (Aristot. Poet. 5). Let this suffice for things that are pleasant; those that are painful will be obvious from the contraries of these.
12.1
Such are the motives of injustice; let us now state the frame of mind of those who commit it, and who are the sufferers from it. Men do wrong when they think that it can be done and that it can be done by them; when they think that their action will either be undiscovered, or if discovered will remain unpunished; or if it is punished, that the punishment will be less than the profit to themselves or to those for whom they care.
12.2
As for the kind of things which seem possible or impossible, we will discuss them later,Book 2.19. for these topics are common to all kinds of rhetoric. Now men who commit wrong think they are most likely to be able to do so with impunity, if they are eloquent, business-like, experienced in judicial trials, if they have many friends, and if they are wealthy.
