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Robert Greene,Joost Elffers

The 48 Laws of Power

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  • Станислав Зиминhas quoted4 years ago
    Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.
  • Syed Hassan Naqvihas quotedlast year
    Strangely enough, it is your act of kindness tiiat unbalances everything.
  • Syed Hassan Naqvihas quotedlast year
    Friends often agree on tilings in order to avoid an argument. They cover up their unpleasant qualities so as to not offend each other. They laugh extra hard at each odier's jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste in clothesmaybe they mean it, often they do not.
  • Syed Hassan Naqvihas quotedlast year
    Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. Tacitus, c. a.d. 55-120
  • George Kevin Pradohas quoted3 years ago
    Reputation is the cornerstone of power.
  • Marianelle Prielhas quoted18 days ago
    inally, although it is wiser to divert attention from your purposes by presenting a bland, familiar exterior, diere are times when die colorful, conspicuous gesture is die right diversionary tactic. The great charlatan mountebanks of seventeendi- and eighteenth-century Europe used humor and entertainment to deceive their audiences. Dazzled by a great show, the public would not notice the charlatans' real intentions. Thus the star charlatan himself would appear in town in a night-black coach drawn by black horses. Clowns, tightrope walkers, and star entertainers would accompany him, pulling people in to his demonstrations of elixirs and quack potions. The charlatan made entertainment seem like die business of die day; the business of die day was a
  • sam :)has quoted2 months ago
    USE ABSENCE TO INCREASE RESPECT AND HONOR
  • sam :)has quoted2 months ago
    Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing.
  • sam :)has quoted2 months ago
    ALWAYS SAY LESS THAN NECESSARY
  • Mixail Samoilovhas quoted3 months ago
    larger than life.
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