Questions Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? [...] it is much safer to be feared than loved
[...] Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you
succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant;
but when it approaches they turn against you. [...]
Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred; [...But when it is necessary for
him to proceed against the life of someone, he must do it on proper justification and for manifest cause, but above all things he must keep
his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. [...]
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