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• More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. -- R. S. Surtee
• The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. Latin Proverb
• Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue
  or is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty? -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• An accommodating vice is better than an obstinate virtue.
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate.
  -- Niccolo Machievelli...
• Morte magis metuenda benectus. (Old age is more to be feared than death.
  ) -- Juvenal (60-140 CE)...
• Question with boldness even the existence of a God
  because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....