1Introduction
26Law 25: Re-Create Yourself
2Law 1: Never Outshine the Master
27Law 26: Keep Your Hands Clean
3Law 2: Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends, Learn How to Use Enemies
28Law 27: Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
4Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions
29Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness
5Law 4: Always Say Less Than Necessary
30Law 29: Plan All the Way to the End
6Law 5: So Much Depends on Reputation—Guard It With Your Life
31Law 30: Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
7Law 6: Court Attention at All Cost
32Law 31: Control the Options—Get Others to Play with the Cards You Deal
8Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit
33Law 32: Play to People's Fantasies
9Law 8: Make Other People Come to You—Use Bait if Necessary
34Law 33: Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew
10Law 9: Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument
35Law 34: Be Royal in Your Own Fashion—Act Like a King to Be Treated Like One
11Law 10: Infection—Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
36Law 35: Master the Art of Timing
12Law 11: Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
37Law 36: Disdain Things You Cannot Have—Ignoring Them Is the Best Revenge
13Law 12: Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm Your Victim
38Law 37: Create Compelling Spectacles
14Law 13: When Asking for Help, Appeal to People's Self-Interest, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude
39Law 38: Think as You Like, but Behave Like Others
15Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
40Law 39: Stir Up Waters to Catch Fish
16Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally
41Law 40: Despise the Free Lunch
17Law 16: Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
42Law 41: Avoid Stepping into a Great Man's Shoes
18Law 17: Keep Others in Suspended Terror—Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
43Law 42: Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep Will Scatter
19Law 18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself—Isolation is Dangerous
44Law 43: Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
20Law 19: Know Who You're Dealing With—Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
45Law 44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
21Law 20: Do Not Commit to Anyone
46Law 45: Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform Too Much at Once
22Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker—Seem Dumber Than Your Mark
47Law 46: Never Appear Too Perfect
23Law 22: Use the Surrender Tactic—Transform Weakness into Power
48Law 47: Do Not Go Past the Mark You Aimed For—In Victory, Learn When to Stop
24Law 23: Concentrate Your Forces
49Law 48: Assume Formlessness
25Law 24: Play the Perfect Courtier
50Conclusion: The Game of Power
