“My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.”

—  Niccolo Machiavelli , book The Prince

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Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469–1527

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