- We must try to understand other people more.
- Understand cruelty and weakness?
- Even that.

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:58.402 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- 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?

- Only moments of beauty, and then, betrayal.

- We must try to understand other people more.

- Understand cruelty and weakness?

- Even that.

- You have such a gift for life, Lucilla. But I think you ask too much of it.

- Learn to pity. Learn to have compassion. For yourself, too. Pity and compassion to yourself.

- The future will make great demands on you.

- Oh, father.

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