We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated… — Seneca
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?
In the original Latin
Homicidia compescimus et singulas caedes; quid bella et occisarum gentium gloriosum scelus?
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.
