Borgia (TV Series)

Who Is Like God? (2013)

Paul Brennen: Agapito Geraldini

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Cesare Borgia : [naked at the mirrors]  Did we like ourselves better before there were mirrors? When your sense of how you looked came from a reflection in a lake. Our your lover's eyes.

  [now looking up close] 

  Cesare Borgia : Though we stare at ourselves hour upon hour, admiring what we see. Or loathing it.

  Agapito Geraldini : Your victory here in Milan seems to have given you no pleasure.

  Cesare Borgia : Success came too easily.

  [getting dressed] 

  Cesare Borgia : Conquering Caterina Sforza-Riaro will be a more difficult task, and therefore a more satisfying win.

  Agapito Geraldini : At your age, winning is everything. At my age, knowing is.

  Cesare Borgia : No, Agapito. I want to know. I want to bite into the forbidden fruit and understand why I need to win. To prove you are the best. The best what? Warrior? Statesman?

  [returning to the mirror] 

  Cesare Borgia : Father? Son? Brother?

  [closely again] 

  Cesare Borgia : Lover?

• Agapito Geraldini : [announcing their arrival at the Sforza castle]  Cesare Borgia, Duke of Antigua, Count of Diwa, Lord of Isadom, beckons Caterina Sforza-Riaro.

  Caterina Sforza-Riaro : [appearing on the wall]  I am here...

  Cesare Borgia : Madonna, will you not come down, so I may see you legendary eyes?

  Caterina Sforza-Riaro : This is as near as I will step towards a Borgia.

  Cesare Borgia : Fine. For now... In the name of Alexander rex et sacerdos, I ask you respectfully to surrender.

  Caterina Sforza-Riaro : That as you have asked in the name of Lucifer Prince of hell. I will not be dragged in shackles up the Vatican steps. To dance like a monkey for that foul smelling Catalan.

  Cesare Borgia : Oh, I think you will surrender.

  [putting his sword to her son's throat] 

  Cesare Borgia : You threatened to kill di Naldo's son. Now I threaten to kill yours.

  Caterina Sforza-Riaro : Go ahead, kill him.

  [grabbing her pants] 

  Caterina Sforza-Riaro : I have the mond to make more.

  [walks away from the wall] 

• Agapito Geraldini : You have made another conquest. Imola is yours. And will be blessed with another child. A legitimate heir. Are you not yet satisfied?

  Cesare Borgia : What is conquest? What is a child? Do either define me? I've striven since coming of age to be unique. To be the better man. I go around shouting, "I am Borgia!" I still do not know what that means.

• Agapito Geraldini : The one element all men share is that we know love.

  Cesare Borgia : Not all men. The only thing we living creatures share is suffering. Just as Jesus suffered. And in that way, we *are* like God.

• Agapito Geraldini : You are remarkable.

  Cesare Borgia : I have a sharp mind, yes. But others are equally sharp. I have courage, yet others are courageous. I have deep desires, as most people do. After I drink, I piss. After I eat, I shit. I am susceptible to earth quakes, lightening, the French disease. I'm not special. Or I am *only* special, because I am human. One of thousands to crawl upon this earth. One of millions who were born before me. One of numbers unimaginable who will come after. Strange, it's as if I know them. Those who will breathe this air in the next millennium are sad souls. Like them, I cannot stop what will happen. I can only pity them, as I hope they will pity me.