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Seneca: Swords Don’t Kill People, People Kill People

March 6, 2025November 17, 2020 by admin

Everything old is new again, eh? From Seneca some 2,000 years ago: A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 B.C. – A.D. 65

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Swords Don’t Kill People . . .

August 4, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

“Sic quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit; occidentis telum est,” or “Just as a sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.” –Lucius Annaeus Seneca in Epistle LXXXVII [via loebclassics.com]   [h/t John Dingell III]

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