| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22940 |
| QUOTATION: | Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Francis De Sales, Saint (15671622), French churchman, devotional writer. quoted by Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus in The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales, ch. 7, sct. 3 (1952). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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