Ultimately, we’re all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men.
We mortals are but shadows and dust.
The crowd don’t want a butcher, they want a hero.[to Maximus]
Some of you are thinking you won’t fight, some that you can’t fight. They all say that until they’re out there.
I wasn’t the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd, and you’ll win your freedom.[to Maximus]
I did not pay good money for you for your company. I paid it so that I could profit from your death. And as your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end.
