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.
— Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness)
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.
Quote context
[...]
- 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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