Book XXXVIII, line 327
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“Love is not always evil, truth to tell;
Though harm he does, he serves the good as well.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Dunque Amor sempre rio non si ritrova:
Se spesso nuoce, anco talvolta giova.
Canto XXV, stanza 2 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Poul Anderson book Three Hearts and Three Lions
Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)
“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The First Octavo Notebook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD981HZ190BUJF-3czZNX3DsFWvqp3cq-Z4QS4d-9gw/edit?hl=en <br class="br">The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Dhammapada, Ch. 17, Verse 223
