The best revenge is to become unlike the one who did the injury. I have made myself unlike... your father; he spoke of dreams, I speak of truth. And the only truth in my Rome is the law of the strongest. I was owned by an emperor. Now I control an Empire. Where else but in Rome can a man do that?
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Macrinus I shall deliver them Caracalla's head and the people shall acclaim me. That, my friend, is politics.
Lucilla This ring belonged to Maximus. I now give it to you. What is the dream of Rome, if its people are not free?
Macrinus Whose head could I give you to satisfy this fury?
Lucius "Hanno" Verus The entire Roman army.
Macrinus Too much.
Lucius "Hanno" Verus The general will do.
Gladiator II
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