Catherine the Great — "I have always believed that it is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot …"

I have always believed that it is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.
Catherine the Great — Catherine the Great Early Modern · Russian Empress, expansion

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Reported remark, a variation of the Machiavellian quote

Date: c. 1760s

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