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 Copy Share Image
We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share
