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Quotes from the movie Gladiator
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When a man sees his end he wants to know there has been some purpose to his life.
Marcus Aurelius


There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
Marcus Aurelius


Your faults as a son is my failure as a father.
Marcus Aurelius


Some of you are thinking you won't fight. Others, that you can't fight, they all say that, until they're out there. [He picks up a sword.] Thrust this into another man's chest, and the crowd will applaud and love you for it. In time, you may even begin to love them for that. Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose when, butÖwe can decide how we meet that end, so that we are rememberedÖas men.
Proximo


Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.
Proximo


Those giraffes you sold me, they won't mate. They just walk around eating, and not mating. You sold me queer giraffes!
Proximo


The silence before you strikeÖand the noise afterÖit risesÖrises like a storm. As if you were the Thunder God himself.
Proximo


I am Proximo. I will be closer to you in these next few days, which will be the last days of your miserable lives than that bitch of a mother who first brought you screaming into this world. I did not pay good money for your company, I paid it so i could profit from your deaths. And just as your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end. And when you die, and die you shall, your transition will be to the sound of Gladiators, I salute you.
Proximo


Strength and honor...
Quintus


Sheath your swords. Sheath your swords!
Quintus


Life is a gift from our fathers to us. Who are you to give it up for lack of lifting a spoon?
Juba


Better to die for a friend than to die for gold.
Juba


You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you.
Juba


Now we are free. *pauses* I will see you againÖbut not yet...not yet.
Juba


The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it.
Gracchus


Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once, make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him.
Lucilla


I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
Gracchus


Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
Lucilla


Sheath your swords. Sheath your swords!
Quintus