numquid equus, ferrum, taurus, leo, funis, olivum in se vim sceleris, cum formarentur, habebant? quod iugulatur homo, non ferrum causa furoris sed manus est; nec equum vesania fervida circi auctorem levitatis habet rabidive fragoris: mens vulgi rationis inops, non cursus equorum perfurit: infami studio perit utile donum.
Did horse and iron and bull and lion and rope and oil have any wickedness in them when they were made? In the murder of a man it is not the iron that is the cause of violence, but the hand; and when the frenzy of the circus rages, it is not the horse that is responsible for the folly or the furious din: it is the unreasoning mob, not the running of horses, that goes mad, and so a useful gift is wasted through a base passion.
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