Top Ten Best Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Quotes from Gladiator

The Top Ten

1 Oh, Commodus. You go too far... Shh, Commodus... Commodus. Your faults as a son is my failure as a father.

2 Are you [Commodus] ready to do your duty for Rome?... You will not be emperor... My powers will pass to Maximus, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be a republic again... My decision disappoints you?

3 You [Commodus] have missed the war... Save the bulls [from sacrifice]. Honor Maximus. He won the battle.

4 How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self?

5 There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.

6 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.

7 And what would you believe?... And what is Rome, Maximus?

8 If only you [Lucilla] had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.

9 You have proven your valor once again, Maximus. Let us hope for the last time... There is always someone left to fight. How can I reward Rome's greatest general?... Ah, home.

10 Let us pretend that you [Lucilla] are a loving daughter, and I am a good father.

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