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| COMMODUS Quotes |
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| "Am I not merciful? AM I NOT MERCIFUL?" |
| "It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed." |
| Commodus: The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena? Maximus: You would fight me? Commodus: Why not? Do you think I am afraid? Maximus: I think you've been afraid all your life. Commodus: Unlike 'Maximus the Invincible' who knows no fear? Maximus: I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." Commodus: I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death? Maximus: You must know. He was your father. Commodus: You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn't it? [stabs him] Smile for me know, brother. |
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| [Watching Lucius Sleep] "He sleeps so well because he is loved." |
| "I would butcher the whole world, if only you would love me." |
| "I would make Rome the wonder of the ages. That is what Gracchus and his friends don't understand. All my desires are splitting my head to pieces." |
| 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 plage, sire? Commodus: No, but if you interrupt me again I assure you that you shall. |
| "Sometimes royal ladies behave very strangely and do odd things in the name of love." |
| [To Maximus] "What am I going to do with you? You simply won't...die." |
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| "You know I love you." |