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Francesco Guicciardini has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
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We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
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He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is…
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...be more guided by hope than fear.
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy…
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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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…
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared…
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There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
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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…
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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…
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Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of…
— Ambrose
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'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And…
— John Wilmot
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have…
— Charles Edison
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Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.
— William Shakespeare
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to…
— William Shakespeare
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