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Francesco Guicciardini

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


— Francesco Guicciardini


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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.


— Francesco Guicciardini


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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


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


— Francesco Guicciardini


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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


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Francesco Guicciardini (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ɡwittʃarˈdini]; 6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. In his masterpiece The History of Italy Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance.

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