Persuade your people that their resistance to Rome is stupid. It is worse than stupid, futile!
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Messala: Look to the West, Judah! Don't be a fool, look to Rome!Judah Ben-Hur: I would rather be a fool than a traitor... or a killer!Messala: I am a soldier!Judah Ben-Hur: Yes! Who kills! For Rome! Rome is evil!Messala: I warn you...Judah Ben-Hur: No! I warn you! Rome is an affront to God! Rome is strangling my people and my country, the whole Earth! But not forever. I tell you the day Rome falls there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before!
Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
Servant: For the Tribune. With the compliments of Quintus Arrius. He awaits your pleasure.Messala: The consul here?Servant: It is Quintus Arrius the Younger, tribune.Messala: Thank him. Bring him to me.Drusus: I didn't know the consul had a son.Messala: I've heard of the young Arrius. He's a champion of the great circus. Why is he here presenting me with gifts?Drusus: Perhaps he will race against you in the games.Messala: Look.Drusus: It's magnificent.Messala: And from a man I've never met!Judah Ben-Hur: You're wrong, Messala.
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