- Guiliano Della Rovere: Gherardo is nearly a 100.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Who eats as if two men of 50.
- Guiliano Della Rovere: And is afraid of his own wind.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Of what wind are you afraid, Giuliano?
- Rodrigo Borgia: [speaking before the Cardinals] Wolves from outside will one day soon devour our flock and us with a terrible vengeance.
- Cardinal: [whispering] Rodrigo has found the Holy Spirit.
- Giovanni De Medici: Or maybe the Spirit has found *him*.
- Francesco Piccolomini: [from behind them] In either case, it has been a while since the Spirit was last among us.
- Guiliano Della Rovere: [elsewhere in the room] Find out who wrote the speech...
- Cesare Borgia: Guilt was created for what reason? For man to enslave himself?
- Alessandro Farnese: No. Without the sensation of guilt, the hierarchy are afraid the individual would run free and there would be no order. Without order, there is no power. Guilt forces each of us to surrender our will, our souls to those who should not possess them.
- Cesare Borgia: So are you saying that the men who are in power do not deserve to rule? His Eminence, Cardinal Borgia?
- Alessandro Farnese: No.
- Cesare Borgia: Then do you believe the kings and the cardinals are correct? That without guilt there would be hell on earth?
- Alessandro Farnese: Without guilt, there would be *heaven* on earth. Man could be who he wants to be, love who he loves. Cesare, if you could excise guilt from your life, here and now, with whom would your relationship be changed? God? Or Rodrigo Borgia?
- Jorge da Costa: There is a wall around Rome. And there is another wall around the wall, made of hands. Hands grabbing for coins.
- Rodrigo Borgia: The poor have empty hands, my dear Costa, but their palms are small.
- Jorge da Costa: Not so small that they cannot pick up knives and clubs, which will happen if we do not reform the church. We shall be murdered in our beds.
- Rodrigo Borgia: I agree. That is why, if chosen, I will, like a potter at his wheel, mold a new church.
- Jorge da Costa: Yes. With your big hands. Always reaching beyond your grasp. You have no chance of being elected.
- Rodrigo Borgia: I am a Borgia. I leave nothing to chance.
- Guiliano Della Rovere: You cannot bind the Supreme Pontiff of the universal church any more than you can the wind.
- Rodrigo Borgia: My dear Costa, why do you not see that I'm your ally? I believe in the same goals as you.
- Jorge da Costa: In voting for my rules, you abstained.
- Rodrigo Borgia: In order to remain neutral.
- Jorge da Costa: Yes, you are the ultimate bureaucrat.