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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.

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[...]

- And would you also have chosen Livius?

- Yes! Yes.

- 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.

- Come and sit by me. Let me look at you.

- Are you happy? You seem reasonably happy, and yet...

- And yet, father?

- A disturbing whisper reached me that you thought once of retiring to the temple of Vesta.

- 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.

- It was because of your mother.

- I was ashamed. And she brought you such pain.

- I knew moments of happiness with her, and beauty. But she looked for love elsewhere, since she could not love me.

- 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?

- Even that.

[...]

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Sound Clip

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Poster

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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