For it must be noted that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge slight injuries, but not severe ones; hence the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
The Prince, political philosophy
The Prince, Chapter III: Concerning Mixed Principalities
1532
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