Alec Guinness credited as playing...
Marcus Aurelius
- Livius: A few days longer, Caesar, we'll bring you his head.
- Marcus Aurelius: No Livius, please don't bring me his head. I wouldn't know what to do with it.
- Marcus Aurelius: Death is in the order of things. Didn't they teach you that in school?
- Lucilla: I will not let you leave me.
- Marcus Aurelius: Is there a choice? Soon, this trickle of blood, these few bones, this net woven of nerves and arteries, will be dust. No choice.
- Marcus Aurelius: You have a heart for it, Livius.
- Livius: But Commodus already shares the throne with you.
- Marcus Aurelius: I had hoped that position and responsibility would make him grow up. But he is interested only in games and gladiators.
- Marcus Aurelius: You have such a gift for life, Lucilla. But I think you ask too much of it. Learn to pity. Learn to have compassion. For yourself, too. Pity and compassion for yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius: When I was a child, Timonides, I had a secret fear that night would come and would never end. That we would live out our lives in total darkness. It was a small fear, then.
- Timonides: Yet, my lord Caesar, the sun always rises - and will again.
- Marcus Aurelius: So you say.
- Marcus Aurelius: What is another day to offer you, Timonides?
- Timonides: Warmth, life, color, people.
- Marcus Aurelius: We've had to fight long wars. Your burdens have been great. But, we come now - to the end of the road. Here, within our reach, golden centuries of peace. A true Pax Romana! Wherever you live, whatever the color of your skin, when peace is achieved, it will bring to all, *all*, the supreme right of Roman citizenship.