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Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Be more guided by hope than fear.

Be more guided by hope than fear.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chanceto make them.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Francesco Guicciardini quotes: Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.