List of Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

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Francesco Guicciardini
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Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
Succeed Affair Reason
Like other men, i have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. yet never have i found in them that content which i had figured beforehand in my mind. a strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Strong Men Mind
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.
Matter Authority Used
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.
Change Looks World
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
Future Evil May
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [it., non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
Evil Males Affair
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Helping Natural Guides
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than i do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to god.
Ambition Men Together
Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. for almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
Retirement Pay Quiet
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
Cheer Sight Role Models
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 Evil Way
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Eye Ears Ambassadors
  • Born: March 6, 1483
  • Died: May 22, 1540
  • Occupation: Historian
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