“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”– Pierre Beaumarchais Related Quotes “No one vinces me, baby”— Michael Grant “I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.”— Samantha Shannon “From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.”— Niccolò Machiavelli