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

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

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

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

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

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

3 For if men do not think, read, talk to each other, above all else, talk, they are no longer men.

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

4 Equality... Freedom... Peace. Who is it that uses these words but Greeks, and Jews, and slaves?

5 I am a teacher, and as a teacher I know that when I have tried to teach the same lesson for a hundred times, and still the pupil does not understand, then I am forced to the conclusion that perhaps there's something wrong, either with the lesson, or with

— Timonides (James Mason)

6 If I had to choose between being Caesar's heir or your love. I choose your love.

7 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.

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

8 Soon this trickle of blood, these few bones, this net woven of nerves and arteries will be dust. No choice.

— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

9 But these wars have been endless. -Endless because you were too gentle. I would have fought these wars differently.

— Commodus (Christopher Plummer), Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)

10 I thought by living alone away from the world, I could find peace. Then I found there is no real peace in being alone. There is only loneliness.

— Lucilla (Sophia Loren)

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