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> [Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/men-are-less-hesitant-about-harming-someone-who-makes-himself-loved/)

[Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/)

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> [“Men are ‘ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, and greedy for gain. While you work for their benefit, they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I said above, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/men-are-ungrateful-fickle-simulators-and-deceivers-avoiders-of-danger/)

[Niccolò Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/)

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