Law #5 – So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it with your Life
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once you slip, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies…
Law #4 – Always Say Less Than Necessary
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying…
Law #2 – Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
Be wary of friends – they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to…
Sick & Gruesome German Children Songs
Did you ever wonder why the German citizens have never been known as particular peace-loving or mentally healthy people? If your guess was the Aryan Übermenschen genetics, you are only partly right. This combined with evil german children stories and songs that are worse than most horror stories in other…
Law #1 – Never outshine the Master
Welcome my magnificent reader, this post analyses the meaning & application of “Never outshine the Master”. What follows is an in-depth summary with approximately 2900 words. Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your…
Quote #18 – Sigmund Freud
The madman is a dreamer awake – Quote by Sigmund Freud
What would Machiavelli read? – Ultimate Reading List of Power
This post contains a comprehensive List of Books like The Prince, Craft of Power, 48 Laws of Power, etc, that Niccolò Machiavelli would read, if he was live today. More than once was I asked for good book recommendations; so often actually that even if I was the Vitruvian…
Quote #17 – Sigmund Freud
Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral than they can imagine – Sigmund Freud
Quote #16 – Charles Darwin
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed, when we realized that they were inside us. – Charles Darwin
Quote #15 – Marc Aurel
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil – Marcus Aurelius
