Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Ludovico Ariosto

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.

Italian - Poet | September 8, 1474 - July 6, 1533

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Man proposes, and God disposes.

Ludovico Ariosto

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

Ludovico Ariosto

We soon believe the things we would believe.

Ludovico Ariosto

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

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

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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.]

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For rarely man escapes his destiny.

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

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

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

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