When the race is over, Mesera, who is near death, insists on seeing Ben-Hur and waits until Ben-Hur.
"Complete victory, Judas. The game is won, the enemy is gone,"
"I don't see the enemy."
"Then what do you think you saw? The broken carcass of an unfortunate animal? There's still one person here for you to hate, and that's enough. Let me help you.
...it's not over yet. Still going, Judas. The game is not over yet. "
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The dialogue between Pontius Pilate and Ben-Hur:
"I just got back from Ishigu, where my mother and sister spent the rest of their lives. According to Roman rules, lepers are hopeless wanderers."
"I heard that it was a big mistake, I'm very sorry."
"Their flesh is mine too, Your Honor Pilate. Their flesh has the stamp of Rome."
"Mesera is dead, what he did, and what he did, is over."
"It wasn't Mesera, I knew him well, before the brutality of Rome seeped into his blood. Rome ruined Mesera, and it ruined my family."
"This is what Rome is great about, great government, great power, great emotion, great mercy, and mistakes are great. We grow and mature because of mistakes. Rome said that she will unite your life with it, in Great future.… Don't torture yourself with those old resentments, or impossible loyalty. There is no such thing as complete freedom, mature people know the world in which they live, and now, the world is Roman ."
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