15 Quotes by Ludovico Ariosto

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

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

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.]

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

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