The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Quotes with Sound Clips

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Memorable quotes from the 1964 film The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Alec Guinness (Marcus Aurelius), Christopher Plummer (Commodus), Sophia Loren (Lucilla), Stephen Boyd (Livius), James Mason (Timonides)

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31 Yet it was I who said, is it not in the nature of the fig tree to give figs, as for the honey bee to give honey, and for the lion who fall upon the lamb?

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

32 A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.

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

— Timonides (James Mason)

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

— Timonides (James Mason)

35 From each rebel city of Cappadocia, Syria, and Egypt, five thousand persons are to be taken and crucified, five thousand persons from each city to be burned alive.

36 He is dead. -He does not seem dead to me. I can still feel his life. And can hear his words.

37 Honorable fathers. We have changed the world. Can we not change ourselves?

38 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.

— Lucilla (Sophia Loren)

39 If we take these barbarians in amongst us, our enemies will say is it because we are weak. Then they will pour in on us from everywhere.

40 If you listen very carefully, you'll hear the gods laughing.

— Commodus (Christopher Plummer)

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