Abandon Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are ‘ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, and greedy for gain. While you work for their benefit, they are completely yours,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only…

— Saint Francis de Sales

The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

— Joshua L. Liebman

Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight

— Toyohiko Kagawa

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli