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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Affairs
Depend
Many
Rarely
Succeed
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Always
Bad
Beyond
Goes
Good
His
Imitates
Model
Short
Up
While
Who
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Chance
Friends
Having
Lose
Make
Never
Nothing
Since
Them
Well
Worth
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Actions
Always
Evident
Generous
Reap
Return
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Causes
Change
Charge
Complaints
Faces
No Time
Remove
Revolutions
Simply
Those
Time
Waste
Your
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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 and honourable ways.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Ambition
Condemned
Evil
Fame
He
Him
Itself
Nor
Seek
Spirit
Ways
Whose
Worthy
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Cannot
Companions
Either
Engaged
Excessive
Fellowship
Folk
Fools
Knave
Making
Men
Most
Others
Our
Perilous
Reason
Risk
Run
Since
Without
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Always
Condemn
Defeated
Did
Discover
Fear
Few
Gain
Hoped
May
Often
Parties
Perpetual
Power
Regain
Revolutions
Ruin
Succeed
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You
Your
Yourself
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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 because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Abhorrent
Ambition
Avarice
Because
Dedicated
Deeper
Disgust
Each
Every
Feels
God
Itself
Know
Life
Making
Man
Men
Odious
Priesthood
Profession
Separately
Than
Them
Together
Utterly
Vices
Well
Who
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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 themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Accomplish
Almost
Attempt
Become
Been
Before
Certain
Certain Things
Done
Easy
Even
Fact
Fail
Get
Impossible
In Fact
Often
Only
Right
Right Time
Them
Themselves
Things
Time
Undertake
Will
Would
You
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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 beyond your actual resources.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Actual
Authority
Beyond
Feared
Great
Make
Matter
Others
Over
Resources
Rightly
Used
Will
You
Your
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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 from experience.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Entirely
Experience
Guide
Help
Him
Himself
Natural
No-One
Persuade
Prudence
Suffice
Trust
Will
Without
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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 I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Beforehand
Beyond
Consider
Content
Desires
Figured
Found
Had
Honours
Hopes
Like
Men
Mind
Never
Obtained
Often
Other
Ourselves
Reason
Should
Sought
Strong
Them
Vain
Well
Which
Why
Wishes
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Accord
Against
Almost
Always
Been
Brought
Heed
Love
Own
Pay
Place
Power
Quiet
Retirement
Tell
Those
Who
Will
You
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Accidents
Affairs
Almost
Always
Any
Concerning
Depend
Even
Experience
False
Form
Future
Hard
Judgment
Many
Nay
Out
See
Shifting
Turn
Wise
World
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There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Benefits
Fleeting
Memory
Nothing
Received
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Francesco Guicciardini
Profession
Historian
BirthDate
06 March, 1483
DeathDate
22 May, 1540
Country
Italy
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