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1. Never outshine the master
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
3. Conceal your intentions
4. Always say less than is necessary
5. So much depends on reputation – guard it with your life
6.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
8. Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary
9. Win through your actions, never through argument
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
13. When asking for help, appeal to peoples self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy
15. Crush your enemy totally
16. Use absence to increase respect and honour
17. Keep others in suspense: cultivate an air of unpredictability
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself – isolation is dangerous
19. Know who you are dealing with – do not offend the wrong person
20. Do not commit to anyone
21. Play a sucker – seem dumber than you look
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
23. Concentrate your forces
24. Play the perfect courtier
25. Re-create yourself
26. Keep your hands clean
27. Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult-like following
28. Enter action with boldness
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless
31. Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal
32. Play to peoples’ fantasies
33. Discover each man’s thumbscrew
34. Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
35. Master the art of timing
36. Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
37. Create compelling spectacles
38. Think as you like but behave like others
39. Stir up waters to catch fish
40. Despise the free lunch
41. Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
43.
44. Work on the hearts and minds of others
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
46. Never appear too perfect
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
48. Assume formlessness
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
3. Conceal your intentions
4. Always say less than is necessary
5. So much depends on reputation – guard it with your life
6.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
8. Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary
9. Win through your actions, never through argument
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
13. When asking for help, appeal to peoples self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy
15. Crush your enemy totally
16. Use absence to increase respect and honour
17. Keep others in suspense: cultivate an air of unpredictability
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself – isolation is dangerous
19. Know who you are dealing with – do not offend the wrong person
20. Do not commit to anyone
21. Play a sucker – seem dumber than you look
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
23. Concentrate your forces
24. Play the perfect courtier
25. Re-create yourself
26. Keep your hands clean
27. Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult-like following
28. Enter action with boldness
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless
31. Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal
32. Play to peoples’ fantasies
33. Discover each man’s thumbscrew
34. Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
35. Master the art of timing
36. Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
37. Create compelling spectacles
38. Think as you like but behave like others
39. Stir up waters to catch fish
40. Despise the free lunch
41. Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
43.
44. Work on the hearts and minds of others
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
46. Never appear too perfect
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
48. Assume formlessness
Some of them are downright heartless
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1. Never outshine the master
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
3. Conceal your intentions
4. Always say less than is necessary
5. So much depends on reputation – guard it with your life
6.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
8. Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary
9. Win through your actions, never through argument
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
13. When asking for help, appeal to peoples self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy
15. Crush your enemy totally
16. Use absence to increase respect and honour
17. Keep others in suspense: cultivate an air of unpredictability
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself – isolation is dangerous
19. Know who you are dealing with – do not offend the wrong person
20. Do not commit to anyone
21. Play a sucker – seem dumber than you look
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
23. Concentrate your forces
24. Play the perfect courtier
25. Re-create yourself
26. Keep your hands clean
27. Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult-like following
28. Enter action with boldness
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless
31. Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal
32. Play to peoples’ fantasies
33. Discover each man’s thumbscrew(kinda. it could also be to avoid it)
34. Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
35. Master the art of timing
36. Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
37. Create compelling spectacles
38. Think as you like but behave like others
39. Stir up waters to catch fish
40. Despise the free lunch
41. Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
43.
44. Work on the hearts and minds of others
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
46. Never appear too perfect
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
48. Assume formlessness
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
3. Conceal your intentions
4. Always say less than is necessary
5. So much depends on reputation – guard it with your life
6.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
8. Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary
9. Win through your actions, never through argument
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
13. When asking for help, appeal to peoples self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy
15. Crush your enemy totally
16. Use absence to increase respect and honour
17. Keep others in suspense: cultivate an air of unpredictability
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself – isolation is dangerous
19. Know who you are dealing with – do not offend the wrong person
20. Do not commit to anyone
21. Play a sucker – seem dumber than you look
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
23. Concentrate your forces
24. Play the perfect courtier
25. Re-create yourself
26. Keep your hands clean
27. Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult-like following
28. Enter action with boldness
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless
31. Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal
32. Play to peoples’ fantasies
33. Discover each man’s thumbscrew(kinda. it could also be to avoid it)
34. Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
35. Master the art of timing
36. Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
37. Create compelling spectacles
38. Think as you like but behave like others
39. Stir up waters to catch fish
40. Despise the free lunch
41. Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
43.
44. Work on the hearts and minds of others
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
46. Never appear too perfect
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
48. Assume formlessness
These don't discount the others, though. Each one of these statements is a lesson and idea kind of like sc..easy to grasp, hard to apply.
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
How do you do this? What are some examples? I need some enemies lol16. Use absence to increase respect and honour
I don't understand this at all.24. Play the perfect courtier
Again, what? If you see a law and have an example of when you encountered or used it, describe it31. Control the options: Get others to play with the cards you deal
For me, in high school, this meant if you had a car you decided where everybody went. Now it means if you can throw a party, you decide when and what. Small examples of a big idea
