If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.
Read more Marcus Aurelius QuotesFrom: Gladiator (2000)
It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.
Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.
Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men.