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Cesare Borgia : [after his fortress is infiltrated by one of his enemies] Do you see what danger we face? Hiding behind walls will not win campaigns. We must attack! I need weapons, engines of death. You are my engineer. Create me weapons that will destroy my enemies.
Leonardo : This is not why I came here.
Cesare Borgia : You've re-routed rivers from their course. You've designed cities, all in my name. What man was ever given this chance? I've made you into a god, Leonardo. You cannot forsake me.
Leonardo : I wish to go home.
Cesare Borgia : You and I, we are the same. We don't need the things that others need. We don't need to be loved. Not when we can inspire awe and fear. A hundred miles along the Roman road. Give me a hundred corpses.
Leonardo : What?
Cesare Borgia : You truly wish to go home? Design a weapon that will slaughter a hundred souls. That is the only way that you will buy your own soul back.
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Lisa Del Giocondo : Is there a problem, Maestro?
Leonardo : I'm sorry, Madonna. I'm... I'm not sure I know how to paint you.
Lisa Del Giocondo : I don't understand.
Leonardo : If I'm to paint you, I must see more than your outward appearance. I must see who you really are. The soul inside.
Lisa Del Giocondo : Surely, that is not so difficult.
Leonardo : God takes your child, and yet you smile.
Lisa Del Giocondo : I am grateful for the time I had with her. I am so grateful for the memories. Suffering brings you closer to God.
Leonardo : I've sought only to get closer to God's truth through beauty.
Lisa Del Giocondo : If it is truth you are seeking, then perhaps you are looking in the wrong place. There is only one truth we as mortals can ever hope to know. And that is love.
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Leonardo : Forgive me, Madonna, but you are in mourning.
Lisa Del Giocondo : Yes, my daughter Lucrezia. She left us when she was only six months old.
Leonardo : I'm so sorry.
Lisa Del Giocondo : I miss her every day. She was so sweet-natured, so full of life.
Leonardo : Your eyes shine when you speak of her.
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Leonardo : Ambition can destroy a man's soul.
Stefano Giraldi : Are you talking about me?
Leonardo : I heard the guards talking. They said your promotion depends on getting my confession.
Stefano Giraldi : I'm not going to put you on the rack. If that's what you're worried about.
Leonardo : Why not?
Stefano Giraldi : Torturing gets people to tell us what we want to hear. I want the truth.
Leonardo : Even at the cost of your own self-interest?
