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(Attila:) About an hour ago, a plot to kill me failed. Were you part of it? |
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(Aetius:) If I were, you'd be dead.
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(Attila:) Yet you come disguised as a peasant. Why not openly, as a friend? |
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| (Aetius:) To see what I wish to see, not what you wish to show me. |
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(Attila:) And? |
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(Aetius:) You've done well.
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(Attila:) The lands I rule are as vast as both your empires put together.
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(Aetius:) There is more to empires than land. |
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(Attila:) It took Rome centuries to become what it is.
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(Aetius:) And what happens to us while you're learning? Do we sink into chaos and ruin?
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(Attila:) Only if you resist us.
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(Aetius:) Civilized men are easy to conquer. |
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But civilization still belongs to the civilized, not the barbarian.
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(Attila:) It belongs to whoever is strong enough to take it. |
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