Ludovico Ariosto quotes

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet and playwright, renowned for his epic poem "Orlando Furioso." This work became a cornerstone of Renaissance literature and had a profound influence on European culture. He is remembered for his wit, creativity, and his lasting impact on literary history. Here are 104 of his quotes:

Man proposes, and God disposes.

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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

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For rarely man escapes his destiny.

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

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When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

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Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

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

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Of all the sex this certain truth is known, No woman yet was ever content with one.

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Want is a master which can sometimes make A man the gravest sacrilege commit.

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One man saluted him, another bowed, Some kissed his hand, still others kissed his foot; Whoever touched him, joyful was and proud, For supernatural he seemed, if not Divine; jostling around him in a crowd, As close as possible the Bulgars got, And clamoured for him raucously and cried To be their king, their captain and their guide.

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The traveller, he, whom sea or mountain sunder From his own country, sees things strange and new; That the misjudging vulgar, which lies under The mist of ignorance, esteems untrue.

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For human laws and laws divine ordain, Who slays another, shall himself be slain.

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[As] a man, whether he stay or flee, Cannot evade his hour of destiny.

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Nature inclines to ill, through all her range, And use is second nature, hard to change.

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Driven raving mad by love-and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.

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Six days I rode, from morn to setting sun, By horrid cliff, by bottom dark and drear; And giddy precipice, where path was none.

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But so secretive nobody can be That someone does not notice finally.

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From voice to voice, from one to other ear, The loud proclaim they through the town declare.

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Nature broke the mould In which she cast him.

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Wherever I am, people always know as if a spotlight were on me with its glow.

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Many would say, that oaths unbinding are, Which 'tis unlawful and unjust to swear.

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And in that place the cruel tyrant, Love, Who treacherously every promise breaks, Who bides his time and watches every move, And every chance to thwart true lovers takes.

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