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.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:24:17.669 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- And would you also have chosen Livius?
- Only... Why did he hesitate?
- Come and sit by me. Let me look at you.
- Are you happy? You seem reasonably happy, and yet...
- A disturbing whisper reached me that you thought once of retiring to the temple of Vesta.
- It was because of your mother.
- I was ashamed. And she brought you such pain.
- 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?
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