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

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Chance Friends Having Lose Make Never Nothing Since Them Well Worth

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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.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Abhorrent Ambition Avarice Because Dedicated Deeper Disgust Each Every Feels God Itself Know Life Making Man Men Odious Priesthood Profession Separately Than Them Together Utterly Vices Well Who

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

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Actions Always Evident Generous Reap Return

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

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Causes Change Charge Complaints Faces No Time Remove Revolutions Simply Those Time Waste Your

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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.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Accidents Affairs Almost Always Any Concerning Depend Even Experience False Form Future Hard Judgment Many Nay Out See Shifting Turn Wise World

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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.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Cannot Companions Either Engaged Excessive Fellowship Folk Fools Knave Making Men Most Others Our Perilous Reason Risk Run Since Without

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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.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Accomplish Almost Attempt Become Been Before Certain Certain Things Done Easy Even Fact Fail Get Impossible In Fact Often Only Right Right Time Them Themselves Things Time Undertake Will Would You

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

~Francesco Guicciardini

Topics: Affairs Depend Many Rarely Succeed

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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

Topics: Always Bad Beyond Goes Good His Imitates Model Short Up While Who

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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

Topics: Entirely Experience Guide Help Him Himself Natural Persuade Prudence Suffice Trust Will Without

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Historian

Born: March 6th, 1483

Died: May 22nd, 1540

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