Ivan the Terrible — "Better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both."

Better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.
Ivan the Terrible — Ivan the Terrible Early Modern · First Tsar of Russia

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A Machiavellian principle often attributed to him in practice, if not in exact words.

Date: c. 1570s

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