Franklin

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
― John Locke

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
― John Locke

“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

“For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan