Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman (Republic of Florence) and author; b. 1469; d. 1527
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in Work and Recreation
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