Vain Desires Quotes by Francesco Guicciardini

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• Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
• Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
• We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
• He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is…
• ...be more guided by hope than fear.
• Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy…
• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
• Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help…
• It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared…
• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well…
• 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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