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

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

Francesco Guicciardini
Succeed, Affair, Reason
"Storia d' Italia". Book by Francesco Guicciardini, 1561.

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
Change, Looks, World

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
Matter, Authority, Used
Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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
Strong, Men, Mind
Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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