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to break such balming words.
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Absent such, a man must speak them to himself.
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Words also denied me.
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You seek them in the voice of thousands, clamoring for blood?
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I could not save my wife.
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Nor Mira. Nor many more close to heart you've not known.
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And I can fight to see a day
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when no innocent life is so easily disregarded.
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A day when the Romans and their cruelty are but distant memory.
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May you find peace in its arrival, brother.
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Let us share wine and women,
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and set aside such heavy fucking thoughts.