Whoever the gods are, they take small interest in an old man's hopes.
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Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
Doctor: We cannot wait, Tribune.Messala: He will come.Doctor: We cannot wait any longer, Tribune!Messala: He will come! He will come. I have sent for him, and he will come!Doctor: If you wish us to keep you alive, we have to go to work now, Tribune. Do you understand?Messala: Cut the legs off me... Not yet. Not till I've seen him. I can't receive him with half a body!Messala: NO!Messala: I told you, Drusus; I told you! There he is.Messala: Triumph c... triumph complete, Judah. The race won, the enemy destroyed.Judah Ben-Hur: I see no enemy.Messala: What do you think you see? The smashed body of a wretched animal? There's enough of a man still left here for you to hate. Let me help you.Messala: You think they're dead, your mother and sister? Dead, and the race over? It isn't over, Judah. They're not dead.Judah Ben-Hur: Where are they?Judah Ben-Hur: Where are they? WHERE ARE THEY?Messala: Look... look for them... in the Valley... of the Lepers! If you can recognize them!Messala: It goes on. It goes on, Judah. The race... the race... is not... over!
Judah Ben-Hur: If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I will help you... murder them. Besides, you must understand this, Messala. I believe in the past of my people, *and* in their future.Messala: Future? You are a conquered people!Judah Ben-Hur: You may conquer the land; you may slaughter the people. But that is not the end. We will rise again.