"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
- Niccol\xf2 Machiavelli, Feb 1532
"Sometimes, when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. 'What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do?' Then I ask myself, 'How well does that reason explain what they say and what they do?'"
- Petyr Baelish, From Game of Thrones – Season 7 Episode 7: ‘The Dragon and the Wolf’