Nec vero ulla vis imperii tanta est, quae premente metu possit esse diuturna. *26* Testis est Phalaris, cuius est praeter ceteros nobilitata crudelitas, qui non ex insidiis interiit, ut is, quem modo dixi, Alexander, non a paucis, ut hic noster, sed in quem universa Agrigentinorum multitudo impetum fecit. Quid? Macedones nonne Demetrium reliquerunt universique se ad Pyrrhum contulerunt? Quid? Lacedaemonios iniuste imperantes nonne repente omnes fere socii deseruerunt spectatoresque se otiosos praebuerunt Leuctricae calamitatis? [185] _ac paret cum maxime mortuo_, Halm, Müller, Heine; _paretque cum maxime mortuo_ c^1, Bt.; _paretque, c. m. m._ L; _apparet, cuius maxime mortui_ b; _apparet cuius maxime portui_ B H a. [186] _valeat_ c; _valet_ B H a b. [187] _ut eris_ Baiter; _ut eriis_ B; _uteris_ L; _utere hiis_ H; _utere iis_ b; _utere his_ a; _utantur eis_ c. [188] _iis_ Edd.; _his_ B H L a; _hijs_ c; _hiis_ b. #The motive of love _vs._ that of fear.# *23* VII. 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. For Ennius says admirably: "Whom they fear they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead." And we recently discovered, if it was not known before, that no amount of power can withstand the hatred of the many. #Hatred of tyranny.# The death of this tyrant,[AK] whose yoke the state endured under the constraint of armed force and whom it still obeys more humbly than ever, though he is dead, illustrates the deadly effects of popular hatred; and the same lesson is taught by the similar fate of all other despots, of whom practically no one has ever escaped such a death. 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. *24* But those who keep subjects in check by force would of course have to employ severity--masters, for example, toward their servants, when these cannot be held in control in any other way. But those who in a free state deliberately put themselves in a position to be feared are the maddest of the mad. For let the laws be never so much overborne by some one individual's power, let the spirit of freedom be never so intimidated, still sooner or later they assert themselves either through unvoiced public sentiment, or through secret ballots disposing of some high office of state. Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. Let us, then, embrace this policy, which appeals to every heart and is the strongest support not only of security but also of influence and power--namely, to banish fear and cleave to love. And thus we shall most easily secure success both in private and in public life.