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• It is far safer to be feared than loved. -- Machiavelli
• It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate.
  -- Niccolo Machievelli...
• 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....
• Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince...
• Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system.
  For the initiator has the emnity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones....
• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system.
  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones....
• The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. Latin Proverb