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. — 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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