Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed…

“And let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that others think…

— Wilhelm Reich

“The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.”

— Sun Tzu

“He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated him were…

— Anthony Trollope

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance

— Steve Perry

“therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in…

— Waxkeep Publishing

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.”

— Machiavelli, Niccolo

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful,…

— Seneca the Younger

“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.”

— Nagisa Tatsumi

What an incredible drug fear is.

— Anne Lamott

“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking…

— M.T. Anderson

“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months…

— Devon Ashley

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities…

— Gail Honeyman