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Top 25 Francesco Guicciardini Quotes (2025 Update)

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.”

1. “How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.”

2. “Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.”

3. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.”

5. “He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.”

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

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

7. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

8. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.”

11. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.”

13. “There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.”

14. “We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.”

15. “As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.”

16. “He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.”

17. “It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.”

19. “By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “But it is dangerous to follow Examples, if they do not correspond in the most material Circumstances with the present State of our Affairs; are not conducted with equal Judgment, or attended with the like Prospect of Success.”

21. “But it is dangerous to follow Examples, if they do not correspond in the most material Circumstances with the present State of our Affairs; are not conducted with equal Judgment, or attended with the like Prospect of Success.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “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.”

22. “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

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Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.”

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

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Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “When wicked or ignorant men govern, it is not surprising that virtue and goodness are not esteemed. For the former hate them, and the latter do not know them.”

24. “When wicked or ignorant men govern, it is not surprising that virtue and goodness are not esteemed. For the former hate them, and the latter do not know them.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini Quote: “Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.”

25. “Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.”

— Francesco Guicciardini

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