1 For men injure either from fear or hatred.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ... 2 But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XX — ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO ... 3 And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER III — CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES 4 Therefore it is wiser to have a reputation for meanness which brings reproach without hatred, than to be compelled through seeking a reputation for liberality to incur a name for rapacity which begets reproach with hatred.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XVI — CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS 5 For this reason I consider that a prince ought to reckon conspiracies of little account when his people hold him in esteem; but when it is hostile to him, and bears hatred towards him, he ought to fear everything and everybody.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND ... 6 But in republics there is more vitality, greater hatred, and more desire for vengeance, which will never permit them to allow the memory of their former liberty to rest; so that the safest way is to destroy them or to reside there.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER V — CONCERNING THE WAY TO GOVERN CITIES OR ... 7 Which course was necessary, because, as princes cannot help being hated by someone, they ought, in the first place, to avoid being hated by every one, and when they cannot compass this, they ought to endeavour with the utmost diligence to avoid the hatred of the most powerful.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND ... 8 Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred; because he can endure very well being feared whilst he is not hated, which will always be as long as he abstains from the property of his citizens and subjects and from their women.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XVII — CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND ... 9 And because he knew that the past severity had caused some hatred against himself, so, to clear himself in the minds of the people, and gain them entirely to himself, he desired to show that, if any cruelty had been practised, it had not originated with him, but in the natural sternness of the minister.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ... 10 Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I come to the conclusion that, men loving according to their own will and fearing according to that of the prince, a wise prince should establish himself on that which is in his own control and not in that of others; he must endeavour only to avoid hatred, as is noted.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XVII — CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND ... 11 But returning to the subject of our discourse, I say that whoever will consider it will acknowledge that either hatred or contempt has been fatal to the above-named emperors, and it will be recognized also how it happened that, a number of them acting in one way and a number in another, only one in each way came to a happy end and the rest to unhappy ones.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND ... 12 But Pertinax was created emperor against the wishes of the soldiers, who, being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not endure the honest life to which Pertinax wished to reduce them; thus, having given cause for hatred, to which hatred there was added contempt for his old age, he was overthrown at the very beginning of his administration.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND ...