Quotes
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Marcus Tullius Cicero : You may fight on as you wish. As for me, I will go from here and surrender myself to Caesar.
Porcius Cato : Have you no dignity? No honor?
Marcus Tullius Cicero : Some little, I hope. Not as much as you, of course.
Scipio : Caesar will kill you.
Marcus Tullius Cicero : That may be. I'm not afraid to die... I'm tired. I want to go home.
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Soldier : [as Brutus and Cicero approach Caesar's camp with the intention of surrendering] Halt, in the name of Rome!
Marcus Tullius Cicero : Calls himself Rome now, does he? Shameless.
Soldier : Who are you? What's your purpose?
Marcus Tullius Cicero : We are Rome, boy, what's left of it.
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[after their defeat at Pharsalus, Cato and Scipio says they must escape and rally fresh troops]
Marcus Junius Brutus : Might one ask where?
Porcius Cato : Africa. We must rally the cities of Africa!
Marcus Tullius Cicero : [bitter chuckle] Africa? Dear gods, we are fast running out of continents.
Marcus Tullius Cicero : And coin! We have taxed every last coin from Greece and spent it all! What shall we use to buy Africa's loyalty? Seashells?
Porcius Cato : We need buy nothing! We are the Senate of Rome...!
Marcus Tullius Cicero : We are old men with mud on our shoes!