Quotes from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Listen, do you really expect me to believe that God lives beneath the Vatican?- Ezio Auditore”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.

'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'

They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Seré tu guía, Ezio. Pero antes debes aprender a abrir tu mente, y a recordar siempre lo siguiente: nada es verdad. Todo está permitido.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“The crowd began to murmur, but then a firm voice stilled it. Giovanni Auditore was speaking.'It is you who is the traitor, Uberto. You, one of my closest associates and friends, in whom I entrusted my life! And I am a fool. I did not see that you are one of them!' Here he raised his voice to a great cry of anguish and of rage.'You may take our lives today, but mark this - we will have yours in return!'

-Giovanni Auditore,
Before his execution”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Over time, and sentence uttered long and loud enough becomes fixed. Becomes a truth. Provided, of course, you can outlast the dissent and silence your opponents. But should you succeed - and remove all challengers - then what remains is, by default, now true.

Is it truth in some objective sense? No. But how does one ever achieve an objective point of view? The answer is you don't. It is literally, physically impossible. There are too many variables. Too many fields and formulae to consider. We can try, of course. We can inch closer and closer to a revelation. But we'll never reach it. Not ever . . .

And so I have realized, that so long as The Templar exist, they will attempt to bend reality to their will. They recognize there is no such thing as an absolutely truth - or if there is - we are hopelessly underequipped to recognize it. And so in its place, they seek to create their own explanation.
It is the guiding principle of their so-named "New World Order"; To reshape existence in their own image. It is not about artifacts. Not about men. These are merely tools. It's about concepts. Clever of them. For how does one wage war against a concept?

It is the perfect weapon. It lacks a physical form yet can alter the world around us in numerous, often violent ways. You cannot kill a creed. Even if you kill all of its adherents, destroy all of its writings - these are a reprieve at best. Some one, some day, will rediscover it. Reinvent it. I believe that even we, the Assassins, have simple re-discovered an Order that predates the Old Man himself . . .”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“I have sworn to be done with it. To not gaze into its core. but faced as I am with the prospect of my end, what harm is there I one last look . .”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“You take what you can get and hold on tight to it- by any means necessary. After all you only live once.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Why should some poor animal die just because it tastes good to us?”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“The Templars lost their Christianity when they discovered banking,”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo da Vinci”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“You'll forgive me if I've grown tired of waiting for humanity to wake up.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“Once there, he was met by Rosa, who greeted him with a lingering kiss. “Put your dagger back in its sheath,” she smiled as their bodies pressed together. “You’re the one who made me draw it. And you’re the one,” he added knowingly, “with its sheath.” She took his hand. “Come on, then.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“From now, his life was forged for one purpose and one purpose alone- revenge.”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“most men are so afraid of beautiful girls that anyone who actually plucks up the courage to have a chat stands at an immediate advantage”
― Oliver Bowden, quote from Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

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