"We put down mad dogs; we kill the wild, untamed ox; we use the knife on sick sheep to stop their infecting the flock; we destroy abnormal offspring at birth; children, too, if they are born weak or deformed, we drown. Yet this is not the work of anger, but of reason – to separate the sound from the worthless."
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Seneca the Younger; as quoted from Seneca: Moral and Political Essays (1995), Cambridge University Press, p. 32
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