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• It is far safer to be feared than loved. -- Machiavelli
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate.
  -- Niccolo Machievelli...
• Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred.
  By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters....
• When the Guru administers, the users are hardly aware that he exists.
  Next best is a sysop who is loved. Next, one who is feared....
• The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. Latin Proverb
• It is better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
• It is better to have loved a short woman than never to have loved a tall.