| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37208 |
| QUOTATION: | Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Niccolò Machiavelli (14691527), Italian political philosopher, statesman. The Prince, ch. 17 (written 1513-1514, published 1532), trans. by George Bull (1961). |
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