Machiavelli — "It is much safer to be feared than loved because love is preserved by the link o…"

It is much safer to be feared than loved because love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
Machiavelli — Machiavelli Early Modern · The Prince, political philosophy

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The Prince, Chapter XVII: Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether it is Better to be Loved or Feared

Date: 1532

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