Francesco Guicciardini Citas

• Puesto que no hay nada que merezca tanto la pena como tener amigos, no pierdas nunca la oportunidad de hacerlos.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Real Friends, Losing Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Change, Waste, Faces

  Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.54, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Aunque muchas personas resulten ser desagradecidas, no dejes que eso te impida beneficiar a los demás, pues no sólo la beneficencia es en sí misma una cualidad noble y casi divina, sino que también puede ocurrir que, mientras la practiques, encuentres a alguien tan agradecido que compense toda la ingratitud de los demás.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Grateful, Practice, People

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• How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Lying, Credit, Superstitions

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• A través de innumerables ejemplos, se hará evidente que los asuntos humanos están tan sujetos a cambios y fluctuaciones como las aguas del mar agitadas por los vientos.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Wind, Sea, Water

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• Luchamos en gran desventaja cuando lo hacemos con quienes no tienen nada que perder.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Fighting, Nothing To Lose, Disadvantages

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

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• El rendimiento que obtenemos de las acciones generosas no siempre es evidente.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Life, Hard Work, Generosity

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• Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Eye, People, Reason

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• Las conspiraciones, puesto que no se pueden llevar a cabo sin la compañía de otros, son por esa razón más peligrosas; porque como la mayoría de los hombres son o tontos o bribones, corremos un riesgo excesivo al hacer de esa gente nuestros compañeros.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Correr, Hombres, Riesgo

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• The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Wise, World, Shifting

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Succeed, Planning, Affair

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• If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Done, Facts, Impossible

  Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.61, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• ...be more guided by hope than fear.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Anticipación

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• Ten cuidado de hacer a un hombre un placer que necesariamente debe causar igual disgusto en otro. Porque el que es así menospreciado no lo olvidará, sino que pensará que la ofensa para sí mismo es tanto mayor cuanto que otro se beneficia de ella; mientras que el que recibe el placer, o no lo recordará, o considerará que el favor que se le ha hecho es menor de lo que realmente fue.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Necesidades

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Memories, Fleeting, Benefits

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Dar rienda suelta de vez en cuando a sus sentimientos, ya sean de placer o de descontento, es una gran facilidad para el corazón de un hombre.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Heart, Men, Giving

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• 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

  Ambition, Evil, Way

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Ambition, Men, Together

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Eye, Ears, Ambassadors

  Francesco Guicciardini (1755). “The history of Italy: from the year 1490 to 1532”, p.40

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• 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.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Fall, Evil, Example

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

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• No hagas caso de quienes te digan que han renunciado al lugar y al poder por voluntad propia y por amor a la tranquilidad. Pues casi siempre han sido llevados a este retiro por su insuficiencia y contra su voluntad.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Retirement, Pay, Quiet

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Cheer, Sight, Role Models

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• 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

  Helping, Natural, Guides

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
  [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Evil, Males, Affair

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• To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Future, Evil, May

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