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48 Laws Of Power Flashcards

1
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What is Law 1?

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Never Outshine The Master

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What is Law 2?

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Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends, learn how to use enemies

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3
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What is Law 3

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Conceal Your Intentions

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4
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What is Law 4

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Always Say Less than necessary

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5
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What is law 5

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So much depends on your reputation-guard it with your life

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What is law 6

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Court attention at all cos

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What is law 7

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Get others to do the work for you but always take credit

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What is law 8?

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Make other people come to you use bait if necessary

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9
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What is Law 9?

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Win through action, never through argument

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What is law 10?

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Infection: Avoid the unhappy or unlucky

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What is law 11?

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Learn to keep people dependent on you

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What is law 12

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Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victims

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What is law 13

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When asking for help, appeal to people’s self interest and never to their mercy or gratitude

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14
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What is law 14

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Pose as a friend work as a spy

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15
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What is law 15

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Crush your enemies totally

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What is law 16

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Use absence to increase respect and honor

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What is law 17?

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Keep others in suspended terror: Cultivate an air of impredictability

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What is law 18?

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Do not build fortresses to protect yourself isolation is dangerous

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What is law 19?

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Know who you’re dealing with, do not offend the wrong person

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20
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What is law 20?

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Do not commit to anyone

21
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What is law 21?

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Play a sucker to catch a sucker

22
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What is law 22?

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Use the surrender tactic: Transform weakness into power

23
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What is law 23?

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Concentrate your forces

24
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What is law 24?

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Play the perfect courtier

25
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What is law 25?

A

Re-create yourself

26
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What is law 26

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Keep your hands clean

27
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what is law 27?

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Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult like following

28
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What is law 28?

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Enter action with boldness

29
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What is law 29?

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Plan all the way to the end

30
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What is law 30?

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Make your accomplishments seem effortless

31
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What is law 31?

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Control the options: Get other to play with the cards you deal

32
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What is law 32?

A

Play to peoples fantasies

33
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What is law 33?

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Discover each mans thumbscrew

34
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What is law 34?

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Be royal in your own fashion: Act like a king to be treated like one

35
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What is law 35?

A

Master the art of timing

36
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What is law 36?

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Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring then is the best revenge

37
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What is law 37?

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Create compelling spectacles

38
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What is law 38?

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Think as you like but behave like others

39
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What is law 39?

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Stir up waters to catch fish

40
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What is law 40?

A

Despise the free lunch

41
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What is law 41?

A

Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes

42
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What is law 42?

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Strike the shepherd and the sheep’s will scatter

43
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What is law 43?

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Work on the hearts and minds of others

44
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What is law 44?

A

Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect

45
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What is law 45?

A

Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once

46
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What is law 46?

A

Never appear too perfect

47
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What is law 47?

A

Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop

48
Q

What is law 48

A

Assume formlessness

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