Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Seneca the Younger

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• We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • War
  • Justice
  • Mad