"Men ought either to be well treated or……" — Niccolo 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 the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge."

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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