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“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.”
Machiavelli offers his controversial advice on the practical nature of political authority.
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley
“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
— Lao Tzu
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Forty percent of our happiness is within our power to change.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
