“I don’t pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people. – Gracchus”
“Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so – Maximus”
“Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly we cannot choose how but, we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men. – Proximo”
“Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity – Maximus”
“Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome. – Lucilla”
“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. -Maximus”
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. – Maximus”
“A general who became a slave. A slave who became a gladiator. A gladiator who defied an emperor. -Commodus”