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#1

“It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet

tags: dark-humor, fear, love

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#2

“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: art, artists, arts-and-humanities, books, classics, creativity, dark-humor, literature, novels, sad-but-true, scandal, tragedy, writers

35 likes

#3

“Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist

tags: danger, dark, dark-humor, funny, humor, ignorance, ignorance-is-bliss, knowing-too-much, knowledge

10 likes

#4

“Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine.”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

tags: dark-humor

10 likes

#5

“There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: dark-humor

40 likes

#6

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

866 likes

#7

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

1111 likes

#8

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

tags: driving-forces, hate, impulses, love, men

579 likes

#9

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

1158 likes

#10

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

507 likes

#11

“Appear as you may wish to be”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

201 likes

#12

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

257 likes

#13

“Quod Principi plaevit habet legis vigorem”
― Machiavelli Niccolo

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