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A Practical Guide to Evil Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the A Practical Guide to Evil novel. A total of 628 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Book 7 Chapter epl: Epilogue I
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- 428 “By my own hand I have made my enemies, and so own them just as a craftsman owns his craft.” – Dread
- 427 “The tragedy of our time, of every time, is that while there is power in knowledge there can be just
- 426 “My lords and ladies, have I not always been a firm believer in second chances?” – Dread Empress Mal
- 425 “In the conduct of war offence is commonly preferable to defence; for in attacking a general acts ac
- 424 “And so Dread Emperor Heinous thus addressed his court: ‘Are we not rulers of devils and dead, princ
- 423 “And on the first day of the year four hundred and ninety-three after the Declaration did a stranger
- 422 “Fifty-five: if your powers are lost, they will nearly always return greater than before so long as
- 421 “Reputation is as rope: it can be either a lifeline or a noose.” – Eudokia the Oft-Abducted, Basilea
- 420 “An enemy will remember you long after your dearest friends forget your face. Consider this, when yo
- 419 “The cruelty of a dilemma is not only in the choice itself; it lies also in the truth it reveals to
- 418 “Kill an enemy, Make another How dreadfully We do usher! Killed; enemy To another.” -Extract from ‘A
- 417 “To concern yourself with wickedness and virtue is to raise partitions within your mind, expecting t
- 416 “Under pale moon, Across the snow As the dead croon And flies the crow Did we not lose, A hundred ti
- 415 “Fifth of all Choirs, sternest Judgement They who cannot abide the repugnant; None more farsighted t
- 414 “Inexorable is the end of the journey; choose wisely how you spend your steps.” – Ashuran saying“Loo
- 413 “The source of might in an army is unity, not numbers. Therefore, the mightiest of all armies number
- 412 “And so as night fell over the Blessed Isle, his Dread Majesty sent across the river the corpse of P
- 411 “In studying our histories I have cast aside old mistakes, instead embracing fresh and interesting o
- 410 “A treaty is fooling all the people at the right time, an alliance is fooling the right people all t
- 409 “Diplomacy is half lies and half courtesies, which is to say it is entirely lies.” – King Alistair F
- 408 “Trouble reveals either true friends or a corpse.” – Arlesite sayingI’d charged Vivienne with handli
- 407 “To have faith is to believe there is a plan greater than your own. And so the dreadful crowned are
- 406 “My dear High Lords, there is nothing to fear. We might be losing the war against Callow yet there i
- 405 “The crocodiles in the pit ate the condemned too quickly when starved and only nibbled when well-fed
- 404 “The great candour in ruling Praes is that, if you make a mistake, assassination attempts will follo
- 403 “Even the most skilled of liars are only ever wielding a lie. Truth is the superior artifice, for it
- 402 “Orphan am I, yet with many mothers and fathers. At once ruler and ruled, yet never only one.” – Fam
- 401 “I assure you, Chancellor, that with but a few words they’ll come around to agreeing with me. Almost
- 400 “Trust not oaths: from a liar they are wind, from the true they are needless.” – Penthesian sayingGo
- 399 “Poison is the weapon of the trade, knife the weapon of the intimate and sorcery the weapon of war.
- 398 “Reputation is as a wild horse; gone at a gallop and returned at a trot.” – Arlesite saying“Tell me
- 397 “There are some who will, for what was writ in this volume, call me traitor. Name me a hater of all
- 396 “Third, taking: Bone to wind And mirror to fill.” -Third of the three so-called ‘Mavian Entreaties’L
- 395 “Here’s the only justice I care to bring across the Vales: a sword in a just hand.” – Queen Elizabet
- 394 “Second, beholden: Candle to blind And harp to still.” – Second of the three so-called ‘Mavian Entre
- 393 “Fear not faith in the unworthy, for to be fooled is shame only on the undeserving.” – Extract from
- 392 “First, gifted: Iron to bind And rope to kill.” -First of the three so-called ‘Mavian Entreaties’, f
- 391 “There are only two sorts of freedom to be found in Praes: the tyrant’s freedom, and the freedom to
- 390 “I am told awe is made half of reverence and half of fear. Let us find out, knights of the Callow, i
- 389 “For light blinds just as surely as the dark, and hatred binds just as surely as love.” – Sherehazad
- 388 “Assertion that the end justifies the means in in truth embrace of the Heavens, for it is they who w
- 387 “A good liar finds every lie a fetter.” – Arlesite sayingIt shouldn’t be possible, I thought. How di
- 386 “Without enemy, without backbone.” – Callowan sayingI didn’t even have to say anything.Black had bee
- 385 “Trust given is a gift, costing only the giver. Trust earned is in balance, worth as much to earner
- 384 “Note: while the assertion that one’s friends ‘are an anchor’ held up to examination, said individua
- 383 “Fifty-three: a trusted companion who, after a string of personal disappointments, begins to dress i
- 382 “Rebel prisoners, Black Knight? Ah, you must mean the fresh orc rations.” – Dread Emperor Foul I, th
- 381 “Power is as wealth; that which is yours has always been snatched from another.” – Dread Emperor Ve
- 380 “Zarei, of short stride saw the long’s pride and carved, laughing found them wanting: chased into sh
- 379 “And after Okoro was taken its King Berengar Rohanon was dragged before the people in the place of F
- 378 “To repudiate what lies at the heart of Praes – ambition, skill, learning – would be a mistake, yet
- 377 “All are free, or none. Ye of this land, suffer no compromise in this.” – Inscription on the foundin
- 376 “It was written in faraway Mieza that law is what separates men and beasts. We know better, in Praes
- 375 “In winning a game one may only grasp lesser victory; only in setting the rules may greater victory
- 374 “It is said that when his Chancellor told him the scheme to release a culling plague would cause reb
- 373 鈥淎 house can be destroyed by a fortune spent and twenty years of exquisite scheming; or in less than
- 372 “Count them all, in the snow Red and gold and black as night Count them all, high and low Seven crow
- 371 “Negotiation with your ruler, my lord, is like treading the edge of a hidden pit filled with man-eat
- 370 “Diplomacy is war without all the clumsiness.” – First Princess Eugénie of LangeIf it came to a figh
- 369 “A victor has a hundred friends, every last born yesterday.” – Helikean sayingAbigail of Summerholm
- 368 “All law is upheld through violence, but when violence itself becomes the law then only disorder can
- 367 “Thus the Gods granted us the third boon: no longer would scales close our eyes, obscuring knowledge
- 366 “Of all Praesi I trust least those who come bearing gifts.” – Queen Yolanda of Callow, the Wicked (k
- 365 “Blood freely spilled always offers greater power, for it carries the worth of both the blood and th
- 364 “They who first look at the sun will never see aught else.” – Helikean sayingIt was just steel. The
- 363 “Beware of deep passions, for great love may turn in hatred just as great.” – Hesperos the Tepid, At
- 362 “You who would be mighty, seek excellence in all things, for the conquest of eternity must be earned
- 361 “One hundred and two: defeat is inevitable, yet it can be just as useful as a victory. Fate assures
- 360 “At which point Lord Bujune and Lady Rania both accused the other of being the Emperor in disguise,
- 359 “Fate is not a bridle; it is an arrow in flight. No hand but your own can loose it, yet once loosed
- 358 “Mastery is meekness, for it is the observation of what we are intended to hold. It is the art of th
- 357 “We fight not only our own wars but those of our forebears and our children, for we inherit the woun
- 356 “It is written that the Hidden Horror sent envoy to the Iron King Tancred, threatening that should h
- 355 “Grudge is born of blood, carried by it and redressed through it. As they who came before me swore,
- 354 “Forgiveness is a scale balanced, nothing more and nothing less.” – King Edward Fairfax the Fifth, t
- 353 “Habitually treacherous enemies are accomplices to their own destruction.” – King Henry Fairfax, the
- 352 “The Lycaonese are a grim people though not without a dark sort of humour, as became evident when I
- 351 “It is the nature of gambling that the scope of one’s victory is proportionate to the scope of all o
- 350 “The priests lie, my friend. A bargain with a devil does not pervert your meanings, or seek to twist
- 349 “Thirty-four: it is not graverobbing if it was your destiny to have that artefact, just proactive in
- 348 “For the left hand is strife and the right hand is ruin, and only one may be clasped. The worthy tak
- 347 “To keep a friend, avoid sharing these three: coin, cup and crown.” – Nicaean sayingThree times now
- 346 “Peace is the killer of empire, for when strength is not spent outwards it is instead spent within.”
- 345 “Forty-three: if your band is split during a harrowing test set by a villain or ambiguous entity, yo
- 344 “Never once have I betrayed, for such an act first requires the extension of trust.” – Dread Empress
- 343 “Ambition without principle is greed, principle without ambition is mediocrity.” – Clodomir Merovins
- 342 “And so Triumphant laughed, saying: ‘You spellsingers, wisdom of stars and weavers of fate, know now
- 341 “One hundred and twenty one: it can be wise to make a truce with a villain to deal with greater thre
- 340 “What poison is to medicine, war is to empire: apportionment is the balance of life and death.” – Ex
- 339 “Oh no, please stop wrecking everything! Like that urn in the corner, with the djinn bound inside. N
- 338 “Ah, the classic imperial dilemma: which caused the other, the rebellion or the tiger pit?” – Dread
- 337 “War itself has no worth, as it is a temporary state. War ends, and therefore its fundamental purpos
- 336 “The middle years of the Uncivil Wars can roughly be described as a series of conflicts fought to de
- 335 “Note: investigation in why sharing a problem is said to halve it remain inconclusive. Perhaps more
- 334 “In boldness find salvation, for stillness is the herald of death.” – Princess Beatriz of Salamans,
- 333 “Just as planned.” -Inscription on the front gates of the mausoleum of Dread Emperor TraitorousThe l
- 332 “My son, the Helikeans insist it is better to live a day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep b
- 331 “Despise not the treacherous but instead the weak, for while both serve the same purpose where treac
- 330 “You should listen to the devil on your shoulder, my friend. I had it nailed onto there for a reason
- 329 “No plan is beyond dreading the sound of a match being struck.” – Dread Emperor Reprobate the First