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.”
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.”
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.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
The First Octavo Notebook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD981HZ190BUJF-3czZNX3DsFWvqp3cq-Z4QS4d-9gw/edit?hl=en
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Dhammapada, Ch. 17, Verse 223
