Francesco Guicciardini Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Future, Evil, May

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• 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

  Change, Looks, World

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

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Succeed, Affair, Reason

  "Storia d' Italia". Book by Francesco Guicciardini, 1561.

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• 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.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Strong, Men, Mind

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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