Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

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

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

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

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

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

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.]