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Niccolò Machiavelli

“This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved”

Machiavelli(1532), The Prince
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