Quotes
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Alfonso d'Este : We must make a public decree condemning Cesare.
Lucrezia Borgia : Never.
Alfonso d'Este : To risk even the appearance of alliance with Cesare is to gamble with our lives. Our son's life. Our entire duchy.
Lucrezia Borgia : I would sooner kill our son.
Alfonso d'Este : How can you say that?
Lucrezia Borgia : Better him dead that alive in a world where a sister betrays her brother.
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Lucrezia Borgia : You are the representative of Jesus Christ on earth. Why do you allow your hatred and envy for my father to lead you to sin?
Giuliano della Rovere : Not sin. Syncopy. One must strike out all traces of one's predecessor, otherwise we will be tied to his precedents, and our successes will be based on *his* legacy. We do this, not for ourselves, but for the spiritual rebirth of the church.
Lucrezia Borgia : You shoot at conflicting targets, Holiness. The purpose of spirituality to expand one's life. The purpose of religion is to limit it.
