One enemy at the time.
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.
Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare,
Man is not born to be happy.
Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable.
Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all.
People do not smile when they are in hell,
Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.
Make enemies if you have to- and you will- but always make sure the most powerful stay your friends.
Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world.
Borgia bastard could never be the social equal of a legitimate Medici.
You would be surprised by the strength of a desperate man.
How do ugly men make their way through life? He thinks of Michelotto. When he walks down the street men take half a step back from him. But he, Cesare, wields a different power. His face has always be...
Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and over, moving so fast that sometimes you cannot even make out the spokes. It...
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.
In the chaos of war, I would have looked simply small, and therefore neither a promise nor a threat.
Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.