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

January 1, 1970

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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. — Book II, section 23; translation by Walter Miller