no. * 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 too 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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