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You ask me what I want. I too want to stand up to the emporer as you did.
— Maximus · Gladiator
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker answers a question about desire by naming resistance to the emperor. Referring to what the listener previously did makes that resistance a shared example to follow. The wish concerns standing up to power, rather than simply obtaining something from it.
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