- Cesare Borgia: [Observing the retreating Papal army] Will the Good Lord see the justice in our cause, Micheletto?
- Micheletto: Where war is concerned, your eminence, our Good Lord will take a holiday.
- Cesare Borgia: I disapprove of lechery, debauchery, drunkenness.
- Juan Borgia: Which is why our father made you the cardinal.
- Cesare Borgia: Why then did he make you a duke?
- Juan Borgia: Because lechery and debauchery are the very marks of nobility.