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.
Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable.
Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare,
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.
Man is not born to be happy.
Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
People do not smile when they are in hell,
And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.
God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.
The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
You would be surprised by the strength of a desperate man.
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...
Make enemies if you have to- and you will- but always make sure the most powerful stay your friends.
Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.
Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world.
In the chaos of war, I would have looked simply small, and therefore neither a promise nor a threat.
Borgia bastard could never be the social equal of a legitimate Medici.
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, the...
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