A disturbing whisper reached me that you thought once of retiring to the temple of Vesta.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:24:05.545 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Even though Commodus is my brother, I would have done as you did, father.

- And would you also have chosen Livius?

- Yes! Yes.

- Only... Why did he hesitate?

- If he'd not been the kind of man who hesitates when faced with such a great responsibility, I would not have chosen him.

- Come and sit by me. Let me look at you.

- Are you happy? You seem reasonably happy, and yet...

- And yet, father?

- A disturbing whisper reached me that you thought once of retiring to the temple of Vesta.

- I know it is too simple to think of life as either beautiful or ugly. But there was a time when life seemed very ugly to me.

- It was because of your mother.

- I was ashamed. And she brought you such pain.

- I knew moments of happiness with her, and beauty. But she looked for love elsewhere, since she could not love me.

- You, the best. The greatest of men. Is that the way it must be, father?

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