Quotes
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Riario Sansoni : The Jude Borgo should be leveled, and the Rome Jews banished along with the Portuguese.
Lucrezia Borgia : Eminence, I invited you to my home in hopes of easing the tensions between us, but your intolerance is intolerable. Rome has always been a sanctuary for the refuges of the world; diversity has been our strength. Would you turn away Jesus because he was a Jew?
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Johan Burchard : Pope Alexander, Pontifex Maximus, finds you guilty of stealing three carrots from the bin of Angelo Rodi.
Rodrigo Borgia : Three carrots, three lashes...
Defendant : Sire, I am like you foreign-born. I have left Portugal with my family.
[being dragged away]
Defendant : We came to Rome for a better life. Then came the rack of inquisition to find torture of starvation. My babies are dying!
Lucrezia Borgia : [observing her father's indifference] STOP! Holiness, a question. What is most fair, to punish or to provide? The answer is both.
[standing]
Lucrezia Borgia : After the three lashes, you will be gifted three ducats.
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Lucrezia Borgia : Discontent sits among us. This is only natural. When people come together to discuss how best to fight evil, there is disagreement. To stifle a voice because the voice opposes one's own opinion, brings disaster. I denounce such deeds.
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Rodrigo Borgia : Tell us, Lucrezia, and be brave in your honesty. Should we step done?
[presents his ring]
Lucrezia Borgia : I could never have sent a man to such a death. Without an iron will and a cruel confidence, I would not be a better sovereign than you.
[handing the ring back]
Rodrigo Borgia : This is true, my daughter. But you are a better person.
