Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
Francesco GuicciardiniHow 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 GuicciardiniTo give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
Francesco Guicciardini