[Book Excerpt Nicholas Prince Machiavelli] Chapter XVII
"It's safer to be feared than loved. Because of the generality of men can say this: they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators, cowardly face of danger and greedy for profit. While they do well, are completely yours: I give their blood, their property, their lives and their children, because you have no need of it, but when the need arises, they rebel. And the prince who has relied entirely on his word, going to ruin by failing to take other measures, for the friendships that come with the money and not to the height and nobility of soul are friends deserved, but for which no available, and when the opportunity they can not be used. "
" Love is a bond of gratitude to the men by nature evil, break whenever they can benefit, but the fear is fear of punishment is not never lost. Notwithstanding this, the prince must be feared so that if you do not get love, avoid hatred, since it is impossible to be both feared and not hated, and for this you will need to refrain from seizing property and women of their citizens and subjects, and not to proceed against someone's life but when adequate justification and manifest reason, but above all refrain from the goods of others ... "
" Turning to the issue of being loved or feared, I conclude that, like love is dependent on the willingness of men and the fear from the will of the prince, a wise prince must rely on their own and not in others, but as I said, always trying to avoid hatred. "
