The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

you want luxuries, as rich people do. You may be
encouraged by having a particularly good reputation, because that
will save you from being suspected: or by having a particularly bad
one, because nothing you are likely to do will make it worse.
    The above, then, are the various states of mind in which a man
sets about doing wrong to others. The kind of people to whom he
does wrong, and the ways in which he does it, must be considered
next. The people to whom he does it are those who have what he
wants himself, whether this means necessities or luxuries and
materials for enjoyment. His victims may be far off or near at
hand. If they are near, he gets his profit quickly; if they are far
off, vengeance is slow, as those think who plunder the
Carthaginians. They may be those who are trustful instead of being
cautious and watchful, since all such people are easy to elude. Or
those who are too easy-going to have enough energy to prosecute an
offender. Or sensitive people, who are not apt to show fight over
questions of money. Or those who have been wronged already by many
people, and yet have not prosecuted; such men must surely be the
proverbial ‘Mysian prey’. Or those who have either never or often
been wronged before; in neither case will they take precautions; if
they have never been wronged they think they never will, and if
they have often been wronged they feel that surely it cannot happen
again. Or those whose character has been attacked in the past, or
is exposed to attack in the future: they will be too much
frightened of the judges to make up their minds to prosecute, nor
can they win their case if they do: this is true of those who are
hated or unpopular. Another likely class of victim is those who
their injurer can pretend have, themselves or through their
ancestors or friends, treated badly, or intended to treat badly,
the man himself, or his ancestors, or those he cares for; as the
proverb says, ‘wickedness needs but a pretext’. A man may wrong his
enemies, because that is pleasant: he may equally wrong his
friends, because that is easy. Then there are those who have no
friends, and those who lack eloquence and practical capacity; these
will either not attempt to prosecute, or they will come to terms,
or failing that they will lose their case. There are those whom it
does not pay to waste time in waiting for trial or damages, such as
foreigners and small farmers; they will settle for a trifle, and
always be ready to leave off. Also those who have themselves
wronged others, either often, or in the same way as they are now
being wronged themselves-for it is felt that next to no wrong is
done to people when it is the same wrong as they have often
themselves done to others: if, for instance, you assault a man who
has been accustomed to behave with violence to others. So too with
those who have done wrong to others, or have meant to, or mean to,
or are likely to do so; there is something fine and pleasant in
wronging such persons, it seems as though almost no wrong were
done. Also those by doing wrong to whom we shall be gratifying our
friends, or those we admire or love, or our masters, or in general
the people by reference to whom we mould our lives. Also those whom
we may wrong and yet be sure of equitable treatment. Also those
against whom we have had any grievance, or any previous differences
with them, as Callippus had when he behaved as he did to Dion: here
too it seems as if almost no wrong were being done. Also those who
are on the point of being wronged by others if we fail to wrong
them ourselves, since here we feel we have no time left for
thinking the matter over. So Aenesidemus is said to have sent the
‘cottabus’ prize to Gelon, who had just reduced a town to slavery,
because Gelon had got there first and forestalled his own attempt.
Also those by wronging whom we shall be able to do many righteous
acts; for we feel that we can then easily cure the harm done. Thus
Jason the Thessalian said that it is a duty to do some unjust acts
in order to be able to do many just ones.
    Among the kinds of wrong done to others are those that are done
universally, or at least commonly: one expects to be forgiven for
doing these. Also those that can easily be kept dark, as where
things that can rapidly be consumed like eatables are concerned, or
things that can easily be changed in shape, colour, or combination,
or things that can easily be stowed away almost anywhere-portable
objects that you can stow