Status Updates From الأمير

And here it should be noted that one can be hated just as much for good deeds as for evil ones.
The need to avoid contempt and hatred

All the allegory means, in making the teacher half beast and half mam, is that a prince must know how to act according to the nature of both, and that he cannot survive otherwise.
How primces should honour their word

A wise prince should rely on what he controls, not on what he cannot control.
Cruelty and compassion

For fear is quite compatible with an absence of hatred
Cruelty and compassion