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Quotation from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

“it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with”

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince, Chapter XVII, trans. W. K. Marriott (1908)

Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli's answer to the classical question of love versus fear, grounded in a bleak view of human fickleness.

Citation: "it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with" — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XVII, trans. W. K. Marriott (1908). (id the-prince-q6)

Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.

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