![IMAGE: Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is much [far] safer to be feared than (to be) loved.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/niccolo-macchiavelli-165412_640_lion-116601_640.jpg)
Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is much [far] safer to be feared than (to be) loved. - Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527): The Prince [Il Principe]
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愛と恐れがめったに共存し得ないものである以上、そのどちらかを選ばねばならぬとすれば、愛されるより恐れられるほうがよほど安全なのだ。 - ニコロ・マキアヴェリ［ニッコロ・マキャヴェッリ］ (1469 - 1527): 『君主論』
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![IMAGE: One man's fault is another man's lesson. [Learn wisdom by faults of others.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/adult-education-3258944_640-100x53.jpg)
![IMAGE: Nurture passes nature. [Nurture is above nature.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/precious-1432335_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Never spur a willing horse. [Do not spur a willing horse.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cowboy-2243027_640-100x56.jpg)