| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Guicciardini |
| | | Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. | 1 |
| Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. | 2 |
| He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable. | 3 |
| 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. | 4 |
| There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. | 5 |
| We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. | 6 | | |
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