Proximo : Can any of them fight? I've got a match coming up.Slave Trader : Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.
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I know that you are a man of your word, General. I know that you would die for honor, for Rome, for the memory of your ancestors. But as for me? I'm an entertainer.
Commodus : I think I understand my own people.Gracchus : Then perhaps Caesar will be so good as to teach us, out of his own extensive experience?Commodus : I call it love, Gracchus. The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly...Gracchus : Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?Commodus : No, but if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you will.
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.