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In Renaissance terms, the distinction is between iustitia legitima and aequitas or aequalitas, between "justice as a whole" and "particular justice.
" So I think he may well have shared Rabelais's pleasure in wit, even if the two are not as close here as they are in their mutual dedication to the restoration of good letters, to virtuous government by princes and popes, to the Christian ideal of caritas, and to the principle of animi aequitas (a marginal note to book 5 of the 1542 edition says "Animus aequus omnia in bonam partem interpretat," which will sound very familiar to readers of Rabelais).
-- Private equity investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, Inc.
 
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