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Francesco Guicciardini
Italian
Historian
Born:
Mar 6
,
1483
Died:
May 22
,
1540
Depend
Men
Power
Will
You
Your
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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
Work
You
Yourself
Fear
Power
Few
Ruin
Hoped
Parties
Always
Condemn
Perpetual
Discover
Did
Revolutions
May
Often
Regain
Gain
Succeed
Your
Defeated
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
Men
Fools
Others
Our
Run
Conspiracies
Folk
Risk
Excessive
Knave
Since
Most
Perilous
Fellowship
Without
Making
Cannot
Either
Engaged
Reason
Companions
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
Evil
Ambition
Honourable
Ways
Worthy
Seek
Spirit
He
Him
Condemned
Nor
Fame
Itself
Whose
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
Good
Imitates
Bad
Beyond
Always
His
Up
Model
Goes
Short
While
Who
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
Trust
Experience
Natural
Will
Guide
Entirely
No-One
Him
Himself
Without
Prudence
Persuade
Help
Suffice
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
Mind
Men
Vain
Other
Consider
Honours
Ourselves
Hopes
Never
Had
Wishes
Like
Beyond
Obtained
Well
Content
Sought
Beforehand
Often
Which
Them
Should
Reason
Figured
Found
Why
Desires
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
Love
You
Will
Power
Own
Pay
Those
Tell
Brought
Relinquished
Almost
Retirement
Always
Been
Accord
Quiet
Place
Against
Heed
Who
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