If you want to rise, Sextus, do the difficult.
3 seconds sound clip from the Ben-Hur (1959) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:18:21.334 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Now the wheel has turned. I am in command.
- Attention! Aisle one, face right! Forward!
- I lived here until I was 14. Jerusalem was my home.
- If you want to rise, Sextus, do the difficult.
- I think you'll find the people changed since you were a boy.
- Oh, won't pay their taxes, an irrational resentment of Rome.
- There's nothing new in all that.
- And then there's religion. I tell you, they're drunk with religion.
- They smash the statues of our gods, even those of the emperor.
[...]
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Actors: Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius), Haya Harareet (Esther), Stephen Boyd (Messala), Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)
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