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# Lorenzo de' Medici

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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lorenzo held the balance of power within the Italic League, an alliance of states that stabilized politica

##  Quotes by Lorenzo de' Medici

> [“I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorenzo-de-medici/i-wish-that-death-had-spared-me-until-your-library-had-been-complete/)

[Lorenzo de' Medici](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorenzo-de-medici/)

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/lorenzo-de-medici-55391_death_i-wish-that-death-had-spared-me-until-yo_736371.jpg)

> [“What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorenzo-de-medici/what-i-have-dreamed-in-an-hour-is-worth-more-than-what-you-have-done/)

[Lorenzo de' Medici](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorenzo-de-medici/)

[Dreamed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreamed/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/lorenzo-de-medici-55391_dreamed_what-i-have-dreamed-in-an-hour-is-worth_834105.jpg)

> [“Too much knowing is misery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorenzo-de-medici/too-much-knowing-is-misery/)

[Lorenzo de' Medici](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorenzo-de-medici/)

[Knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knowing/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f25/lorenzo-de-medici-55391_renaissance-italy_too-much-knowing-is-misery-1755856_1755856.jpg)

> [“If you knew how hard it is to obtain perfection in any wart, you would overlook shortcomings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorenzo-de-medici/if-you-knew-how-hard-it-is-to-obtain-perfection-in-any-wart-you-would/)

[Lorenzo de' Medici](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorenzo-de-medici/)

[Perfection](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perfection/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/lorenzo-de-medici-55391_perfection_if-you-knew-how-hard-it-is-to-obtain-per_2326341.jpg)

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