17 Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

Ludovico Ariosto quotes

1. Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.

2. For rarely man escapes his destiny.

3. But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.

4. Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

5. Man proposes, and God disposes.

1. They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

2. When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

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

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

5. 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.]

6. Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

7. Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

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

9. We soon believe the things we would believe.

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

11. “Ah, how I rue that what I could have done I did not do!”

12. “This dog won’t hunt. This horse won’t jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won’t burn, the kindling is wet, and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying. He has no other choice then but to let It go and take a nap on the ground there, lying Next to her—for whom Dame Fortune has more Woes and tribulations yet in store.”