The Prince · W. K. (William Kenaz) Marriott translation

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Chapter XVII · CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED

Niccolò Machiavelli

. . . against my will, my fate A throne unsettled, and an infant state, Bid me defend my realms with all my pow’rs, And guard with these severities my shores. Christopher Pitt.

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“Res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.”[2]

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Note 2Chapter XVII · CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED

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Chapter XVII · CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED