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But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.

— Cicero De Officiis – On Duties (-44)

Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.

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Book II, section 23; translation by Walter Miller

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