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Never Outshine the Master
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Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends, Learn How to Use Enemies
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Conceal Your Intentions
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Always Say Less Than Necessary
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So Much Depends On Reputation — Guard It With Your Life
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Court Attention At All Costs
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Get Others To Do The Work For You, But Always Take The Credit
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Make Other People Come To You — Use Bait If Necessary
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Win Through Your Actions, Never Through An Argument
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Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and the Unlucky
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Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
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Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm Your Victim
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When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never Their Mercy or Gratitude
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Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
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Crush Your Enemy Totally
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Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
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Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
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Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself — Isolation is Dangerous
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Know who you are Dealing With — Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
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Do Not Commit to Anyone
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Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker — Seem Dumber Than Your Mark
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Use the Surrender Tactic — Turn Weakness Into Power
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Concentrate Your Forces
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Play the Perfect Courtier
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Re-Create Yourself
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Keep Your Hands Clean
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Play on People’s Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
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Enter Action with Boldness
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Plan All the Way to the End
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Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
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Control The Options: Get Others to Play With the Cards You Deal
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Play to People’s Fantasies
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Discover Each Man’s Thumbscrew
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Be Royal In Your Own Fashion: Act Like a King and be Treated Like One
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Master the Art of Timing
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Disdain Things You Cannot Have: Ignoring Them is the Best Revenge
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Create Compelling Spectacles
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Think as You Like but Behave Like Others
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Stir Up Waters to Catch Fish
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Despise the Free Lunch
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Avoid Stepping Into a Great Man’s Shoes
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Strike the Sheperd and the Sheep Will Scatter
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Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
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Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
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Preach the Need for Change, But Never Reform too Much at Once
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Never Appear too Perfect
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Do Not Go Past the Mark You Aimed For; In Victory, Learn When to Stop
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Assume Formlessness
From a book by a guy named Robert Greene. I sense an urge to get in touch with my Machiavellian side. 😀
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