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      "text": "It is the curse of absolute power, Olek. There is no one to admonish you, no laws save those you make. We like to believe there is something special, even alien, about evil. We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not. They are merely unchained, unfettered; free to do as they please.",
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      "text": "\"No golden age to discover now,\" he whispered. \"No end to disease and starvation. No, bright sparkling cities reaching the clouds ... All that I have lived for is gone now. I am so tired.\" \"Then think on this, priest: You stopped the Eternal from finding greater weapons. Your actions here have led to her death. The world is free again.\" \"Free? Of one tyrant perhaps. You think there will be no others?\" \"No, I do not. But I know there will always be men to stand against them. You grieve because of a pure magic lost. That magic was corrupted by evil. This is how evil thrives. We find an herb that cures disease, and someone will make a poison from it. We forge iron to make a better plow, and someone will make a sharper sword. There can be no power that evil will not corrupt.\"",
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