And yet the answer is simple. We must have no war.

— Timonides (James Mason)

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

You can hear this line at 01:53:23.800 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

- Fires go out, the dead are buried, the slaves die, slowly. But their hatred that we leave behind us never dies!

- Hatred means wars.

- Wars mean tribute torn from our provinces, taxes, hunger, disease.

- How costly that is! How wasteful!

- And yet the answer is simple. We must have no war.

- No war? When your friends continually attack us.

- This is treason!

- These people have proved their aims very clearly. To destroy us, and to destroy the whole Roman way of life.

- And yet, the answer is simple.

[...]

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