Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
The Prince, political philosophy
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"It is not fortune, but their own indolence, that causes men to abandon themselves to their fate."
Humorous"A prince must have no other object, no other thought, nor take anything else for his art, but war and its orders and discipline; for this is the only art that belongs to him who rules."
Shocking"A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands."
Strange & Unusual"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."
Strange & Unusual"He who conquers a province in a foreign country, and does not establish his residence there, is in great danger of losing it."
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