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... and feared, but if both are impossible, it is much better to be feared.]

A famous passage from Machiavelli’s [The Theory of Monarchs], a famous book from my previous life. At eighteen years of age, big brother is too young to be both loved and feared by the powerful men in his domain as a lord. But last night, when he wiped out the Novadine faction, the powerful people in the fief who were present at the feast came to fear him.

It was amazing that brother had succeeded in making him ...

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