Francesco Guicciardini Quotes - 9quotes.com

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
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.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
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.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
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.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
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.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
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.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
Written by Francesco Guicciardini

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