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“moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”
― Alain de Botton

“question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“resemblance between Fortune and women and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince