Spartacus Quotes in Spartacus (1960)
Spartacus Quotes:
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Tigranes Levantus: If you looked into a magic crystal, you saw your army destroyed and yourself dead. If you saw that in the future, as I'm sure you're seeing it now, would you continue to fight?
Spartacus: Yes.
Tigranes Levantus: Knowing that you must lose?
Spartacus: Knowing we can. All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.
Tigranes Levantus: They both lose life.
Spartacus: When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
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Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?
Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.
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Spartacus: And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.
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Spartacus: I am not an animal!
Varinia: Neither am I.
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Varinia: You like him, don't you.
Spartacus: Who wants to fight? An animal can learn to fight. But to say beautiful things, and to make people believe them...
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[being forced to fight]
Spartacus: Don't give them the pleasure of a contest. Lower your guard, I'll kill you on the first rush.
Antoninus: I won't let them crucify you!
Spartacus: It's my last order, obey it!
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Spartacus: What's your name?
Draba: You don't want to know my name. I don't want to know your name.
Spartacus: Just a friendly question.
Draba: Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.
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[fighting]
Spartacus: Do you realize how long it takes to die on a cross?
Antoninus: I don't care!
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Spartacus: [to Crassus, about the slain Antoninus] Here's your victory. He'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be millions!
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[on a gladiator who had wanted to see Rome]
Spartacus: He has no need. Rome has come to us.
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Varinia: What are you thinking about?
Spartacus: I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read.
Varinia: You know things that can't be taught.
Spartacus: I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to... I wanna know.
Varinia: Know what?
Spartacus: Everything! Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from.
Varinia: The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath.
[laughs]
Spartacus: I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart.
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Spartacus: The only reward of a slave is scars.
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Consul Metello: You never win victories with brute force alone. You also have to have a brain.
Spartacus: You don't believe I have one.
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Livia: You're not a Christian?
Spartacus: That's the sort of thing that I don't have time to be bothered with.
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