In all that talk did this this topic, death slip your minds? Or did you know deep down that your wisdom would be helpless before this mystery of mysteries.
14 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:59.685 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- A small point in your side. Perhaps no larger than a grain of wheat.
- Of what use is your wisdom now? No answer?
- Think of all you have read and pondered over the years.
- And the talk, Marcus Aurelius. The hours of talk with your friend, Timonides.
- But once you admit that, all other knowledge and skill only becomes trivial and meaningless.
- For if men do not think, read, talk to each other, above all else, talk, they are no longer men.
- He has come for me. The silent boatman to ferry me across the shadowed river.
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Actors: Alec Guinness (Marcus Aurelius), Christopher Plummer (Commodus), Sophia Loren (Lucilla), Stephen Boyd (Livius), James Mason (Timonides)
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