Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Excessive fear is always powerless. – Aeschylus

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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything. – Julia Child

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Beneath fear, a bit of poetry always escapes. Sometimes, a ready soul picks it up and finds a way to transform it into beautiful verses of courage. – Terri Guillemets, “Abandoned treasure,” 2016

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. – Abraham Lincoln

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If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, How do we get one of those? and she was like, You cant get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool? – Miley Cyrus

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Of course, I do everything for money. – Christopher Hitchens

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Fear insults courage. – Terri Guillemets

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