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

- Ludovico Ariosto

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

- Ludovico Ariosto

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

- Ludovico Ariosto

Man proposes, and God disposes.

- Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

- Ludovico Ariosto

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

- Ludovico Ariosto

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

- Ludovico Ariosto

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 sta…

- Ludovico Ariosto

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

- Ludovico Ariosto