Apprehension Quote by Francesco Guicciardini

“To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.” quote by Francesco Guicciardini — Download Open image

“To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.”

Francesco Guicciardini

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Apprehension Evil Future Instance Lays Lost May Turns Unwise

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Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

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