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TIL of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman emperor who lived a simple life on a farm and only took power as Dictator of Rome when people asked him to save the republic. During his two reigns, he only stayed in power long enough to get the republic through an emergency, then returned to his farm.

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