From
Gladiator (2000)
Maximus:
Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing.
Marcus Aurelius:
And what would you believe?
Maximus:
They fought for you and for Rome.
Marcus Aurelius:
And what is Rome, Maximus?
Maximus:
I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.
Marcus Aurelius:
Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...
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