When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

Gladiator

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Topic

Looking back Purpose of life Meaning of life

Speaker

Marcus Aurelius

Actor

Richard Harris

Source

Gladiator

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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Another quote by Marcus Aurelius

Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic
Steadfastness Dependability Inner strength Courage

Author

Marcus Aurelius
Source
Meditations
Medium
Personal journal
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
Greek
Time
180 180s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

Another quote about Purpose of life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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Topic
Simple living Introspection Life lessons Purpose of life

Author

Henry David Thoreau
Source
Where I Lived, And What I Lived For Walden
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1854 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Another quote from the following genre Drama

Cause she got a great ass...and you got your head all the way up it!

Heat

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Topic
Women's attractiveness
Speaker
Lt. Vincent Hanna
Actor
Al Pacino
Source
Heat
Medium
Film
Genre
Crime (film) Drama (film) Crime Drama
Language
English
Time
1995 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Heat. Directed by Michael Mann, Regency Enterprises/Forward Pass, 1995.