Spartacus quotes from Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Spartacus

What else did the Gods tell you about my future?

Sura

That you will never love another woman.

Varro

You act as if you have free will in the matter. You are a gladiator!

Spartacus

I am a Thracian!

Varro

You are a slave! To cling to a life beyond these walls is to see your heart parted from your chest. You above all others should know this.

This morning, I boasted the top retiarius in all of Capua. Now, I possess nothing more than bones and brains scattered upon the rocks!

Spartacus

Apologies.

FUCK YOUR APOLOGIES! I will have return of the value lost! The price of the man will be subtracted from your winnings until the remainder is balanced!

Spartacus

As you see fit, Dominus.

All of this for what? Pietros?! He was nothing! Shit from a whore!

Spartacus

He was a man. His life had worth!

Half a coin at most! Gnaeus was a gladiator! Years of training, each mounting to exorbitant cost - that is true worth!

Spartacus

He did not deserve to live.

[attacking him] I alone decides who lives! Not you! Not a FUCKING SLAVE!

Crixus

Gnaeus is dead? What reason did you have to take his life?

Spartacus

My reasoning lies forever silent.

Crixus

Your actions betray us all. Gnaeus was a gladiator! A brother.

Spartacus

He was no brother of mine.

Crixus

When you swore the oath, every man in here became your brother, deserving of an honorable death in the arena! Your actions shame my fighting beside you.

Spartacus

You speak as if you had choice in the matter!

Crixus

I did, and I chose not to end your life in the arena. A decision I presently regret.

Spartacus

As do I.

Crixus

You strike a solid blow, against an ill-trained fool who taints the name of Gaul.

Spartacus

He may a fool. But he is one who is fit to train. Again!

Crixus

You doubt that I am fully healed? Because I will show you otherwise!

Spartacus

You over-reach, and here is the result.

Crixus

Do not address me as you would a recruit.

Spartacus

Then do not act like one.

Crixus

Words of import, from the mighty Spartacus. Bringer of rain, slayer of Theokoles. As if you stood against him on your own! Without my aid, you would have nothing. Not even your miserable life.

Spartacus

True. Yet here I stand, and there you sit.

Crixus

You know shit, about being a champion. Of being a true brother. You're only playing at your own part. And one day the game will end.

Spartacus

Death comes to us all. Press me again, and you shall find yours.

Spartacus

You would kill a fellow Gaul, to save a man you hate?

Crixus

I did not save Spartacus. I saved a brother, who shares the mark. You have earned a glorious death, and shall die at the hands of a gladiator.

Mira

You do not desire me?

Spartacus

I desire only sleep. And the absence of dreams.

When I put on the toga virilis, it was in this very room, surrounded by my father's champions. Even then I knew that one day my own titans would eclipse them all. None more so than Spartacus, the Bringer of Rain!

Spartacus

You honor me.

You stand above all others. Continue on this path, and we will have the world!

Varro

Aurelia tells me Sicilia is a island blessed by the Gods. You must visit us there when you gain freedom.

Spartacus

I no longer concern myself with thoughts beyond these walls.

Crixus

And nor should you. A true champion dreams only of the arena.

Spartacus

And what does one dream of when he's no longer a champion?

Crixus

Regaining the title from the thief who stole it from me.

How can you keep besting a man so far above your station?

Spartacus

I sprung from my mother with sword in hand. The ways of battle are second nature, passed down from father to son.

I regret my own father never saw the advantage of military glory. Never saw the spoils that could be won, the patronage, the alliances forged had he taken up arms. He aspired to be no further than what he was. A simple lanista, far from Rome. You and I, however, we have fashioned wings, to raise us higher than the muck and mire of heritage. Higher than our fathers could never imagine.

Varro

There is no choice.

Spartacus

There is always a choice.

Doctore

It is never an easy thing to see a friend once loved now absent breath.

Spartacus

He should yet walk. That foolish grin, and dreams of a life beyond these walls.

Doctore

Every night breaks. And we must all wake.

Spartacus

I would the gods turn back the sun and set me in his place.

Doctore

He fought with honor. As did you both.

Spartacus

His heart was stilled for a boy's amusement. Where is the honor in that?

Doctore

Varro left this world a gladiator. And shall be remembered as such.

Spartacus

No. He will be remembered as a husband. A father. And a friend amongst enemies.

What do you speak of?

Spartacus

I speak of nothing.

Nothing sounds much like escape.

And how would "nothing" find way past Batiatus and all his fucking Romans?

Spartacus

There is but one path: we kill them all.

Spartacus

You move well. As if lash had never struck.

Crixus

Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.

Spartacus

I would have you at your best when we face each other.

Crixus

Is that all you'd have for me? Rhaskos speaks of your desires. What fever grips brain, that Spartacus would think me to band with him? To risk the lives of my men, my life?

Spartacus

Is there one, without the woman you love within it?

Crixus

I've never had a stronger reason to live.

Spartacus

I know your heart Crixus. I felt the beating of it within my chest once.

Crixus

Then you know I'll fucking survive, and see Naevia returned to me.

Spartacus

As my wife was returned. Batiatus ordered her death.

Crixus

How did you come upon this?

Spartacus

The tongue of his man Aulus before silencing it forever. I will see the house of Batiatus fall, and with it the villain's blood upon the earth.

Crixus

As would I in your position, but I am far removed. My escape would not aid Naevia. How would I purchase her freedom? Or even find her while being hunted like a dog by the Romans.

Spartacus

Join me, and we will find her together.

Crixus

You know that in another life, you and I may have been as brothers. But not in this one. I must win my freedom in the arena.

Spartacus

Then we stand in the way of each other's cause.

Crixus

And both are just, but if I fall I'd have you swear to find Naevia, see her freed.

Spartacus

And I would have word that if you are victorious, one day you will have Batiatus' life.

Spartacus

Tomorrow then, one of us dies.

Crixus

I fear it was always fated so.