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“I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Dark as is this hour, there is shining through the heavy overcast of fear and anger the solemn and wonderful image of the Son…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I conclude that since men love at their own will and fear at the will…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“by committing a mortal sin, instead of seeking to please God, it prefers to gratify the devil, the prince of darkness, and so comes…

— Teresa of Ávila

“And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess,…

— Jack London

“This thing wants to spread, Henry. It wants to get bad enough—” “—to attract a Prince,” I finished grimly. “Some opportunistic son of a…

— Seanan McGuire

“The years passed. Untouched by age, he lived and did as his creator had suggested. Victim after victim, drink after drink, he tried to…

— Jettie Necole

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Being feared and not hated go well together, and the prince can always do this if he does not touch the property or the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“For how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought…

— Niccolò Machiavelli