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• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• It is far safer to be feared than loved. -- Machiavelli
• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....
• The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. Latin Proverb
• Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not regulated by conscience
• If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. -- Anonymou
• It is better to be on penicillin, than never to have loved at all.
• It is better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
• It is better to have loved a short woman than never to have loved a tall.