becoming
focal
pointoftheirneed
to
believe,2l5—26behaving
like,
whilethinking
as
you
like,317-24comrnitrnent
to,
145-55discovering
thumb-screws
of,
2”/‘l—8linsulting,142, 143, 159,
189keeping
them
depen-denton
you,82-88keeping
theminsus-pended
terror,123-29making
themcometoyou,62438playing
totheirfan-tasies,
263-70types
of,
13744unhappy
and
unlucky,avoidance
of,76—8lusing
work
of,
56451working
onheartsandminds
of,
367-75overacling,
198oversteppingyour
bounds,
186Ovid,379,
402~4
“Owl
Who
Was
God,
The”
(Thurber),277» 79
Pacific
Ocean,
discovery
of,238,
239Panama,
237
Panchatantra,
tale
from,207-8parables,
see
fables
andfolktalesfixcaux
Cerfs,34-S,
414parents,stepping
intoshoes
of,
34767Paris,
liberation
of,
315
past:
reinterpretationof,
397supportforvalues
of,397-98using
knowledge
from,59»-(50
patience,
xxx‘,29],295,298patrons,
86,175,2.51,
342Aretino
and,
33840gifts
to,
28?»-89patterns,
28,126,128,129,415,
416Pausanias,3l8~—19,
323pawns,
367,
373payingfull
price,
333,334,344,
346payingyourown
way,333,
346pearls
before
swine,laying
of,321,
3'23“PeasantandtheApple
Tree,
The”
(Aesop),96Pedrari-as
(Pedro
AriasDévila),238,
239Peloponnesian
War,97,164,
241Peluponnexian
War,
27w(Thueydides),
98PentagonPapers,
306people,
seeother
peopleperfection,appearance
of,400-409Pergamus,
70Pericles,349-50,354,
359-60,
416Perseus,377,
390Pershing,john_].,
301,302Persia,
148,318-19,351,359,381,382,
411-12,420,428personality,
195perspective:
anger
and,
329450isolation
and,
136persuasion,
73working
onthehearixandmindsof
others,3627-75Peru,335,
359-60Perugino,
Pietro,
350-5?Peter
11,
Emperor,427Pelit
Trianon,
368Petrucci,Pandolfo,
77pettiness,
338Philip,King
ofMacedunia,350-52,
416PhilipI],King
of
Spain,353Philippines,
354philosophefs
stone,219,
220Phoenicia,
331Picasso,Pablo,4-841%,
127-28,149,
355pickpockets,
66Pisa,
342Pistoia,153Pizano,Francisco,59.238,335-36,
359-60,
365Pizarro,Gonzalo,
336placaulng
others,
188plain,unassuming.
andoften
unintelligentman,
dealing
with,13&3§Planallthe
waytotheend(Law29),
236-44»Planck,Max,
398planning,
212,
419tothe
end,
236-44flexibility
in,
244and
learningwhentostop,
410-18Play
asuckertocatchasucker—seemdumber
than
yourmark
(Law21),155-62Play
on
people’sneedtobelievetocreateacultlikefollowing
(Law27),
215-26Play
the
perfectcourtier(Law24),
178-90Play
to
people’sfantasies(Law32),
263-70pleasure,being
asourceof,
182Pluiarch,73,60,
278-
7.9,292-94,310-17,349-50,362,
377-
72,405Hmizt
Mimirfir
Hmws,
21(Gmcizin),
348Poe,Edgar
Allan,l3l~33,38?‘Poggio,
Stefano
di,96-97Poggiofarnily,
96,
9?Poland,
255polio
vaccine,
322politeness,
180politics,
abstraction
in,425Pompadour,
MadamedeQearme
Poisson),348,413-14,
415Pompey,
192,
278-79pond
of
fish,
image
of,
331Pontormo,_]ax:opo
da,135,252INDEX
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