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Fear is a poor safeguard of lasting power; affection can keep it safe
Drawn from what Cicero said
What Cicero actually said
- Cicero Roman statesman, orator and philosopher (106 to 43 BCE)
For fear is but a poor safeguard of lasting power; while affection, on the other hand, may be trusted to keep it safe for ever.
Where this was said
↗De Officiis (tr. Walter Miller, 1913)gutenberg.org
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