Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. -Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.


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Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones.

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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

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