There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Socrates

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Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Winston Churchill

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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