- Cesare Borgia: We must surround you with Papal Guards at all times.
- Rodrigo Borgia: To live in fear is to live without God.
- Cardinal Sforza: As a priest, I believe that in the eyes of Mother Church, the sacrament of marriage is a divine union between a man, his wife, the Lord, and no one else.
- Lucrezia Borgia: But what if Giovanni does not see the circumstances that way? Fear, retribution has clouded his ardor.
- Cardinal Sforza: Then you must do what all women do to save their marriages. You must tell your husband what he wants to hear.
- [chuckles]
- Cardinal Sforza: Whether it be the truth, or not.
- Alessandro Farnese: You are that well versed in the strategy of war?
- Cesare Borgia: I suffered at school, not because I did not study, but because I studied Ceaser instead of Christ. For even Jesus said, give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's, and to God what is God's. But there is no place for God on the battlefield.
- Rodrigo Borgia: This is one of those rare moments when expediency and vengeance go comfortably in hand.
- [last lines]
- Giulia Farnese: Orsino's gone - out of our life.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Yes.
- Giulia Farnese: You're not pleased...
- Rodrigo Borgia: In our name men have died in battle. Families have been torn asunder. Those who stood in our way have been silenced. But now the spilled blood has spread under our very own door. This one act of retribution is... murder. Changes everything.