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!
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]
I knew a man who once said, “Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.”[to Commodus, quoting Marcus Aurelius]
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]
Fear is not the emotion that should be dictating our actions.
Do you not understand? I may die in this cell tonight, or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave! What possible difference can I make?[to Lucilla]
Dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood.[to Quintus]
A soldier has the advantage of being able to look his enemy in the eye.[to Senator Falco]
A good leader must project confidence at all times.
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]
