Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: March 6, 1483 - May 22, 1540

Topics

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I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

Tommy Caldwell

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Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.

Michael Keaton

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The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

Michael Moriarty

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'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.

Miles Teller

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The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

Julia Quinn

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The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.

David Shields

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Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Colleen Atwood

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Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

Anthony Fauci

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The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

Pope Francis

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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

Penn Jillette

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I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

Sharon Lawrence

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