"The best revenge is to become unlike the one who did the injury. I have made myself unlike... your father; he spoke of dreams, I speak of truth. And the only truth in my Rome is the law of the strongest. I was owned by an emperor. Now I control an Empire. Where else but in Rome can a man do that?"
January 1, 1970
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