Feared or Loved · Niccolò Machiavelli

it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

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If one must choose, it is safer to be feared than loved.

Machiavelli's The Prince, written in 1513 and published in 1532, chapter XVII.

In your team, are the rules held together by affection or by predictability?

W. K. Marriott 英译，公版。原文句中首字母小写，引用时保留。

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