Quotes by Francesco Guicciardini

• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.