Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

1483–1540 Italy

Francesco Guicciardini (6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance.

Italy
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Politicians

Also known as: Guicciardini, Francesco

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Never wage war on religion, nor upon seemingly holy institutions, for this thing has too great a force upon the minds of fools.

Counsels and Reflections (1857)

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.

Storia d' Italia (1537)

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

Storia d' Italia (1537)

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Storia d' Italia (1537)

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

Storia d' Italia (1537)

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.

Storia d' Italia (1537)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francesco Guicciardini (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.