Ludovico Ariosto Quotations

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.