Your quality will be known among your enemies, before ever you meet them.
Your brother’s kingdom was here[points to head]and here.[points to heart]That kingdom can never be surrendered.[to Sybilla]
You go with the army?[Balian of Ibelin]My order is with the army.[Hospitaler]You go to certain death.[Balian of Ibelin]All death is certain.[Hospitaler]
Would I had fought you when you were still capable of making bastards.[Guy de Lusignan]I knew your mother when she was making hers. Fortunately, you’re too old to be one of mine.[Godfrey of Ibelin]
Will you yield the city?[Saladin]Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places, ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.[Balian of Ibelin]I wonder if it would not be better if you did.[Saladin]
Why did we retire? Why? God did not favor him. And God alone determines the results of battles.[Mullah]The results of battles are determined by God, but also by preparation, numbers, the absence of disease and the availability of water.[Saladin]
Who defends?[Saladin]Balian of Ibelin, the son of Godfrey.[Imad]Godfrey? Godfrey nearly killed me in the Lebanon. Truly, I did not know he had a son.[Saladin]It was his son at Kerak.[Imad]The one you let live?[Saladin]Yes.[Imad]Perhaps you should not have.[Saladin]Perhaps I should have had a different teacher.[Imad]
When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end, really. Or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man. A father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power, when you stand before God, you cannot say, “But I was told by others to do thus,” or that “virtue was not convenient at the time.” This will not suffice. Remember that.[to Balian]
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When a body is burnt, it cannot be resurrected until Judgment Day.[Patriarch of Jerusalem]If we do not burn these bodies, we will all be dead of disease in three days. God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn’t, then he is not God, and we need not worry.[Balian of Ibelin]
What man is a man who does not make the world better?
What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy? The wall? The Mosque? The Sepulchre? Who has claim? No one has claim. All have claim!
What is Jerusalem worth?[Balian of Ibelin]Nothing…[walks away]Everything.[Saladin]
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