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 Copy Share Image
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. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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