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Quotes
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Cesare Borgia : We must change 17 cynical minds.
Juan Borgia Lanzol : And how are we to do that?
Cesare Borgia : With honey or vinegar.
Juan Borgia Lanzol : You would ask us to use violence?
Cesare Borgia : To be violent in order to destroy is criminal. To be violent in order to restore is heroic.
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[first lines]
Francesc Gacet : [banging on the door to his bed chamber] Holiness, he is almost here! Holiness, please! Holiness.
Alfonso D'Este : [crowd chanting Hail Cesare!] Did you ever imagine the walls the eternal city would echo your name as they once did for your namesakes Julius and Augustus Caesar? Be honest. Does not this hero's welcome live up to your boyhood dreams?
Cesare Borgia : Even more so.
Juan Borgia Lanzol : Then why so dour?
Cesare Borgia : Dour? My face beams like the sun on a blue day.
Alfonso D'Este : You shine brightly - for show.
Cesare Borgia : They sing my praises for eliminating Savonarola. In their eyes, an enemy to Rome. But my goal in manipulating the monks there, it was not to save Christendom or my father.
Juan Borgia Lanzol : You're wrong. You efforts were on behalf of Holy Mother Church.
Alfonso D'Este : And that divine entity towers above Rodrigo Borgia, Savonarola, or any man.
Cesare Borgia : I do not place my future in the brutal hands of God, but in delicate fingers of the goddess known as Fate.
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Cesare Borgia : [interrupting his prayer time] Rafaele, I see you are taking the Holy Father's directive to heart.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : No, I do not pray about you. I, like Nehemiah, am a man of prayer. Either kneel with me or leave me be.
Cesare Borgia : I will do neither.
[knocks him to the floor]
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : Like Nehemiah, who restored the walls of Jerusalem, I also am a man of action. Lay your hands on me again,
[pushing him roughly]
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : Cardinal Borgia, and you will regret it!
Cesare Borgia : You believe you are a match for me?
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : I believe I am holding cards which you do not wish me to play.
Cesare Borgia : [scoffs] You're about to say that the investigation of my brother's murder has never been officially completed, and that I killed Juan.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : No, no. I'm certain that you did not. But there is one person whom we never discussed nor interrogated. Your sister, Lucrezia.
Cesare Borgia : Lucrezia? Ridiculous.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : Before the Spanish departed Rome, I heard some rather intriguing facts from one of De Cordova's lieutenants about that young man, Pedro Caldes. The one you killed?
Cesare Borgia : You pretend to be a priest, yet at every turn you act the politician.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : Unlike you, Cesare, I have known my true calling, the reason I was born, since childhood. I cannot imagine living life any other way. The priesthood has liberated me from all temporal anxiety, knowing that my reward of everlasting life awaits... Why do you smile?
Cesare Borgia : Because the Red Sea has suddenly parted. If you do not vote my way, I'll destroy you. You will be excommunicated.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : Obviously your influence with the Pope has reached new heights. But even Rodrigo Borgia would never dare excommunicate a preist without sufficient...
Cesare Borgia : [interrupting] "Ground?" A moment ago you accused the Holy Father's daughter of murdering his son. Bishop Flores dies daily in Terra Nuova prison for the sin of false witness.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : No one heard me but you.
Juan Borgia Lanzol : [entering with 2 others] We did.
Rafaele Riario-Sansoni : My vote is yours.
