Top 16 Quotes by Francesco Guicciardini

About Francesco Guicciardini

These are some quotes by Italian author Francesco Guicciardini Historian, who lived between March 6, 1483 and May 22, 1540.

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

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

Francesco Guicciardini

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.

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

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

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

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini

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

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

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

Francesco Guicciardini

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