“Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”
Caligula (12–41) 3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
“They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 154
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Oderint dum metuant.
Lucius Accius (-170–-84 BC) Roman poet and scholar
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Oderint, dum metuant.
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