It is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.
— Tokugawa Ieyasu Early Modern

Unified Japan, Tokugawa shogunate

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Context

This quote is famously attributed to Niccolò Machiavelli in 'The Prince', not Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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N/A (misattributed)

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Shocking

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