Behold the state of man's unstable mind, Still prone to cha… - Ludovico Ariosto

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Behold the state of man's unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love.

Ludovico Ariosto

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Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516), "Orlando Enraged".

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

Che chi ne l'acqua sta fin'alla gola
Ben'e ostinato se merce non grida.

A donna né bellezza,
Né nobiltà, né gran fortuna basta,
Sì che di vero onor monti in altezza,
Se per nome e per opre non è casta.

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