Note 156 — Chapter XIX · GENERAL DIRECTIONS AND PARTICULAR CASES OF CONSCIENCE, ABOUT CONTRACTS IN GENERAL, AND ABOUT BUYING AND SELLING, BORROWING AND LENDING, USURY, &c. IN PARTICULAR.
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Whether the consequent be good or hurt is like to be greater, must be well considered.
[157] Exod. xx. 21, "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him." Exod. xxiii. 9, "Thou shalt not oppress a stranger," &c. So that usury to a stranger was no oppression.
[158] Of recreations, see before.
[159] Leg. Steph. Vinan. Pigh. in Hercule prodigo, pag. 130-132. Cui peregrinatio dulcis est, non amat patriam: si dulcis est patria, amara est peregrinatio. August.
[160] Lege Eurycic. Pateani Orat. 9.
[161] Read Bishop Hall's "Quo Vadis" on this subject.
[162] Peregrinatio levia tædia quædam animorum et veluti nauseas tollit: non tollit morbos qui altius penetrarunt, quam ut externa ulla medicina huc pertingat. Id. ib.
[163] Congressus sapientum confert prudentiam: non montes, non maria. Erasm.
[164] Peregrinatio omnis obscura et sordida est iis quorum industria in patria potest esse illustris. Cicer.