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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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AuthorName
Adam Weishaupt
Profession
Clergyman
BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
Country
Germany
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