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'If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!'
'There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper, and it would vanish.'
'You're lying. I could always tell when you were lying because you were never any good at it.'
'I would butcher the whole world if you would only have loved me!'
'Your family... will meet you in the afterlife.'
'The frost. It sometimes makes the blade stick.'
'Your faults as a son is my failure as a father.'
'He will bring them death, and they will love him for it.'
'I like you, Spaniard. I shall cheer for you.'
'We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus!'
'My brother hates all the world, and you most of all.'
'I call it love, Gracchus. The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly.'
'Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?'
'Tell me what you've been doing, busy little bee. Or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood.'
'I served your father at Vindobona! And I served the general Maximus; I serve him still.'
'I am a slave. What possible difference can I make?'
'Marcus Aurelius trusted you. His daughter trusts you. I will trust you.'
'Am I not merciful? AM I NOT MERCIFUL?'
'Sheathe your swords! Sheathe your swords!'
'Free my men. Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated. There once was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized.'
'Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again.'
'Now we are free. I will see you again. But not yet, not yet.'
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