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“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats