5,000 of my men are out there in the freezing mud. 3,000 of them are bloodied and cleaved. 2,000 will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing.[to Marcus Aurelius]
What happened?[Lucy MacLean]It’s the same thing that always happens. Everyone wants to save the world, they just disagree on how.[Maximus]
Trusting someone and that person being trustworthy are two different things.
Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.
The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end… Highness.[to Commodus]
Proximo, are you in danger of becoming a good man?
It is a knight’s duty to better this fallen world. You don’t deserve that armor.[to Titus]
In order to make a big problem something you can handle, you gotta make it small.
In all my years, I’ve only ever seen one man come out on top in Vegas. We got to do it like he did.[Ghoul]And what’s that exactly?[Maximus]He rigged the game.[Ghoul]
I’ve seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light.[to Marcus Aurelius]
I will win the crowd. I will give them something they’ve never seen before.[to Proximo]
Free my men. Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated. There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.[ to Quintus]