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Seneca the Elder

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Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
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Seneca the Younger Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, no. 87, sect. 30; translation from John W. Casperson A Chalice of Miracles (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2008) p. 43.

 
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