According to Freud (who was speaking from experience, since he was his mother’s darling), spoiled children have a confidence that stays with them all… - Robert Greene

A seduction should never settle into a comfortable routine. The middle and later chapters will instruct you in the art of alternating hope and despair, pleasure and pain, until your victims weaken and succumb.

Knowing in a deep way who you are, your uniqueness, will make it that much easier to avoid all of life’s other pitfalls.

A bold act requires a high degree of confidence. People who are the targets of an audacious act, or who witness it, cannot help but believe that such confidence is real and justified. They respond instinctively by backing up, by getting out of the way, or by following the confident person. A bold act can put people on their heels and eliminate obstacles. In this way, it creates its own favorable circumstances.