Character: Rodrigo Borgia

The truth lies in wine ... and timing.

Skillful lies are stronger than the rough truth. The people believe in the cruelty and greed of the nobility, our fall gives the poor a sense of equality.

The last love of a man is both the most bitter and the sweetest.

- All that I could give to the family - I put on the altar of lust for power and ambition. A temple built on a rotten foundation. Do you think I'll let you go the same way? I can not...

- Yes, the riddle of the Sphinx. He has the king of France in his pocket, a whole army running errands, and no one knows what he's up to.

- And cursed together.

- I know this and you know, but the imagination knows how to persuade.

- Did you come tell us about spiders?
"She [Katarina Sforza] is in cahoots against us.
- With whom?
- With all the noble families of Rome.
- So, it's time to act: to tear these silk threads from the source, from the great arachne. And teach her a lesson in scary, elegant revenge.
- Revenge can be elegant?
- Yes. And eloquent.

“I have mourned him for a long time. Day after day, I looked at him and cried. You know yourself, you were there, but you always forgave him everything.

You know that ridicule is much worse than defeat in war or politics.

- What's in your mouth?
- It's a cigar.
- Not poop?
- Nope!
- Smells like well.

- No, Giovanni Sforza. He ran into a knife that Cesare ... was accidentally holding.

- We heard your thoughts.

You need to know your enemies, even better than your friends.