Niccolo Machiavelli's 'The Prince'

Machiavelli’s The Prince
Is it better to be loved than feared or to be feared rather than love? In Machiavelli’s The Prince he talks about good qualities that every prince should have but can’t cause human life makes it impossible for the prince to have every single one of those good qualities. In fact Machiavelli believes that everyone would like to be loved and feared but he’s right when he says it is extremely difficult to be both so his view about the situation is that it is safer to be feared than loved.
First let’s talk about Machiavelli's views on the query. His view is that it is better to be feared than loved but he also said “Still, a prince should to inspire fear in such a way that if he isn’t loved he at least isn’t hated, because being feared isn’t much of a burden if one isn’t hated.” He still thinks being feared is
First let's talk about the ones where he is loved, everyone wants to be loved and not left out but you don’t want to be when dealing with relationships as a prince because men are less hesitant to let you down because “love affects men’s behaviour only through the thought of how they ought to behave”. Now we’re going to talk about how the relationship is if they fear their prince. “Fear affects their behaviour through the thought of possible punishment, and then that thought never loses its power”. And he isn’t wrong with what he’s saying because he explains the two relationships well and does a great job defending his views on the question. Machivallia then goes to talk about the campaigns of famous commanders and how they had fear in their soldiers from from inhuman cruelty. Then he talks about commander Hannibal and how his mixed race army had no problems in it and the only possible explanation solution he could think of was inhuman cruelty. Hannibal could not have made his soldiers fear him and have a functional army without