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“It was as if all my life had been spent fighting, killing and running. I wanted peace but I knew it was unattainable. I had to return and rule my people...”
― Fredrik Nath, Galdir - Protector of Rome

tags: ancient-rome, barbarian, commodus, galdir

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“The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians”
― stephen fry, Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music

tags: barbarians, history, humour

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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“What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

tags: barbarians, expect, honor, nation

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“I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader.”
― Fredrik Nath, Galdir - Protector of Rome

tags: ancient-rome, barbarian, commodus, galdir

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