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 th… - Niccolò Machiavelli

Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions. Thus, it is an easy matter for him who carefully examines past events to foresee future events in a republic and to apply the remedies employed by the ancients, or, if old remedies cannot be found, to devise new ones based upon the similarity of the events. But since these matters are neglected or not understood by those who read, or, if understood, remain unknown to those who govern, the result is that the same problems always exist in every era.

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.
Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

Is it better to be loved or feared?