- Alessandro Farnese: The hardest part of becoming intimate with God is realizing he sometimes He wants me to act in ways of which my friends would never approve.
- [last lines]
- Giovanni Sforza: You are the master strategist. Why is His Holiness not letting us consummate our marriage?
- Cardinal Sforza: As long as your bed is empty, he is able at any moment to dissolve the bond between you. He is waiting. In case a union with our house no longer suits his needs.
- Cardinal Sforza: [then louder for Giulia to hear] That or the Pope wants to fuck Lucrezia.