This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficu… - Niccolò Machiavelli

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

مصوري المناظر الطبيعية ينزلون إلى الوديان ليتمكنوا من رسم الجبال. ثم إنهم يصعدون إلى أماكن مرتفعة حتى يتمكنوا من رؤية السهول والوديان. ولذلك فمن الضروري أن تكون أميرا حتى تعرف طبيعة شعبك, كما أنه يجب أن تكون أحد الرعية أيضا كي تعرف الحقائق المتعلقة بالأمراء.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.