• Law 1: Never Outshine the Master
• Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
• Law 3: Conceal your Intentions
• Law 4: Always Say Less than Necessary
• Law 5: So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life
• Law 6: Court Attention at all Cost
• Law 7: Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit
• Law 8: Make other People come to you, use Bait if Necessary
• Law 9: Win through your Actions, Never through Argument
• Law 10: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
• Law 11: Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
• Law 12: Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim
• Law 13: When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
• Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
• Law 15: Crush your Enemy Totally
• Law 16: Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
• Law 17: Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
• Law 18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself. Isolation is Dangerous
• Law 19: Know Who You're Dealing with. Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
• Law 20: Do Not Commit to Anyone
• Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker. Seem Dumber than your Mark
• Law 22: Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
• Law 23: Concentrate Your Forces
• Law 24: Play the Perfect Courtier
• Law 25: Re-Create Yourself
• Law 26: Keep Your Hands Clean
• Law 27: Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
• Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness
• Law 29: Plan All the Way to the End
• Law 30: Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
• Law 31: Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
• Law 32: Play to People's Fantasies
• Law 33: Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew
• Law 34: Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
• Law 35: Master the Art of Timing
• Law 36: Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
• Law 37: Create Compelling Spectacles
• Law 38: Think as you like but Behave like others
• Law 39: Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
• Law 40: Despise the Free Lunch
• Law 41: Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes
• Law 42: Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
• Law 43: Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
• Law 44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
• Law 45: Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
• Law 46: Never appear Perfect
• Law 47: Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop
• Law 48: Assume Formlessness

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