# Quote — Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

> Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why
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> You seldom make our longings correspond?
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> How is it, traitor, you rejoice to spy
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> Two hearts discordant, one repelled, one fond?

- Author: [Ludovico Ariosto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludovico-ariosto.md)
- Book: [Orlando Furioso](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludovico-ariosto/orlando-furioso.md)
- Original (it): Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raro / Corrispondenti fai nostri desiri? / Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caro / Il discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludovico-ariosto/orlando-furioso/ah-cruel-love

## More from this book

> Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars,
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> of courtliness, and of valiant deeds I sing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludovico-ariosto/orlando-furioso/of-ladies-knights.md)

> What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludovico-ariosto/orlando-furioso/what-a-man.md)

> The higher up on Fortune's wheel you see
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> A wretch ascend, the sooner he will fall,
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> And where his head is now, his feet will be.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludovico-ariosto/orlando-furioso/the-higher-up-on-fortunes.md)