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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- 401 “I assure you, Chancellor, that with but a few words they’ll come around to agreeing with me. Almost
- 402 “Orphan am I, yet with many mothers and fathers. At once ruler and ruled, yet never only one.” – Fam
- 403 “Even the most skilled of liars are only ever wielding a lie. Truth is the superior artifice, for it
- 404 “The great candour in ruling Praes is that, if you make a mistake, assassination attempts will follo
- 405 “The crocodiles in the pit ate the condemned too quickly when starved and only nibbled when well-fed
- 406 “My dear High Lords, there is nothing to fear. We might be losing the war against Callow yet there i
- 407 “To have faith is to believe there is a plan greater than your own. And so the dreadful crowned are
- 408 “Trouble reveals either true friends or a corpse.” – Arlesite sayingI’d charged Vivienne with handli
- 409 “Diplomacy is half lies and half courtesies, which is to say it is entirely lies.” – King Alistair F
- 410 “A treaty is fooling all the people at the right time, an alliance is fooling the right people all t
- 411 “In studying our histories I have cast aside old mistakes, instead embracing fresh and interesting o
- 412 “And so as night fell over the Blessed Isle, his Dread Majesty sent across the river the corpse of P
- 413 “The source of might in an army is unity, not numbers. Therefore, the mightiest of all armies number
- 414 “Inexorable is the end of the journey; choose wisely how you spend your steps.” – Ashuran saying“Loo
- 415 “Fifth of all Choirs, sternest Judgement They who cannot abide the repugnant; None more farsighted t
- 416 “Under pale moon, Across the snow As the dead croon And flies the crow Did we not lose, A hundred ti
- 417 “To concern yourself with wickedness and virtue is to raise partitions within your mind, expecting t
- 418 “Kill an enemy, Make another How dreadfully We do usher! Killed; enemy To another.” -Extract from ‘A
- 419 “The cruelty of a dilemma is not only in the choice itself; it lies also in the truth it reveals to
- 420 “An enemy will remember you long after your dearest friends forget your face. Consider this, when yo
- 421 “Reputation is as rope: it can be either a lifeline or a noose.” – Eudokia the Oft-Abducted, Basilea
- 422 “Fifty-five: if your powers are lost, they will nearly always return greater than before so long as
- 423 “And on the first day of the year four hundred and ninety-three after the Declaration did a stranger
- 424 “And so Dread Emperor Heinous thus addressed his court: ‘Are we not rulers of devils and dead, princ
- 425 “In the conduct of war offence is commonly preferable to defence; for in attacking a general acts ac
- 426 “My lords and ladies, have I not always been a firm believer in second chances?” – Dread Empress Mal
- 427 “The tragedy of our time, of every time, is that while there is power in knowledge there can be just
- 428 “By my own hand I have made my enemies, and so own them just as a craftsman owns his craft.” – Dread
- 429 “It which does not take the knife of mistake by the grip is destined to take it by the blade instead
- 430 “Fairness is the refrain of the lazy, the inept, the heroic. Anyone unwilling to stack the deck and
- 431 “Friend and foe know a different man.” – Helikean sayingThe contents of my tent were one of the few
- 432 “Friendship is as a garden: taking years to flourish, unmade by a season’s negligence.” – Proceran s
- 433 “As sage in Nicae is a fool in Stygia.” – Free Cities sayingAfternoon Bell came and went before Hann
- 434 “Men pray only to angels because their devils need no summons.” – King Edmund of Callow, the Inkhand
- 435 “A dog to the brave, a wolf to the craven.” – Arlesite sayingI would head for the Arsenal tomorrow,
- 436 “The enemy’s come to die on this field, my friends, for an awful prince and terrible pay. We, on the
- 437 “Raise the price by a coin of gold and you make enemies; raise the price by a copper and you make lo
- 438 “The doom of carefully laid plans is two unfeeling sisters by the names of mishap and surprise.” – K
- 439 “One must not look down on tricks that deceive only fools, my son, as the better part of the people
- 440 “To boast of an opinion unchanged is to boast of wearing child’s clothing.” – Atalantian sayingThe M
- 441 “A ruler should always join regicide plots: is the finest possible teacher for a locksmith not a thi
- 442 “Biting the hand that feeds you is another way to feed.” – Dread Emperor Vindictive IIThere were sev
- 443 “Crimes against a crown are treason, crimes by a crown are a reign.” – Dread Emperor Reprobate the F
- 444 “You bargained for my soul, dear devil, and that is what you received. Is it my fault you did not st
- 445 “I’m afraid that that old saying about resting when you’re dead has proved overly optimistic, my goo
- 446 “Fate is not the river but the fisherman: run wild as you will, it will reel you in before the end.”
- 447 “Turn back, Emperor, for if you venture further west the sole stretch of land you’ll have of me will
- 448 “Know mercy for what it is: the plea of the ant to the boot.” – Queen Elizabeth Alban of CallowThey
- 449 “It takes two hands to clasp in peace, only one fist to strike in war.” – Taghreb sayingRoland had n
- 450 “The kindest mirror is an old friend, the cruellest an old foe.” – Callowan proverbThe smell was, im
- 451 “One hundred and twenty-five: under no circumstances should you trust anyone who has the title of ch
- 452 “A problem that cannot be solved by brute strength can still be destroyed by it.” – Dread Empress Ma
- 453 “The finest exercise of war is to interrupt the enemy’s plan. Therefore, the general without a plan
- 454 “The Vales we held with valour And swept clear the Wasaliti But spring returns the enemy As we grow
- 455 “The henhouse stands unlatched All within, by the fox snatched So here they go, once again Chasing a
- 456 “Giving battle is as being made to wed one of two ugly sisters– even if you get the prettier of the
- 457 “Loyalty to an unworthy prince is treason against the Gods Above, for it places that prince before t
- 458 “Though it is not poor advice that one should imitate excellence, one who follows this advice alone
- 459 “Hold not even the least of the laws of men in contempt, for where their like is absent rule only th
- 460 “When using tigers you don’t have enough time to gloat, when using rats you risk awkwardly running o
- 461 “Diplomacy is not an art of peace or a higher calling, it is the act of nations bartering what they
- 462 “The advantage of fair laws is not inherent but rather in the people’s appreciation of them. It is t
- 463 “Admittedly, it was my fault for not specifying the flying fortress had to be able to fly in directi
- 464 “The man who sleeps with virtue finds the bed has no room for a third.” – Proceran saying“Fuck,” I s
- 465 “Let priests offer forgiveness before the hanging, a queen can only afford it after.” – Queen Yoland
- 466 “Thirty-seven: theft in the service of Above is not a sin. It is, however, still a crime. Be discree
- 467 “To offer forgiveness to the unrepentant is as the sheep embracing the wolf.” – Hektor the Ecclesias
- 468 “For though the Gods Above laid down the path of righteousness for all to see, so did the Gods Below
- 469 “If you want something done right, steal it from someone who did.” – Dread Emperor Malevolent I, the
- 470 “One who rears a tiger should not complain of stripes.” – Soninke sayingThe Painted Knife’s band had
- 471 “It is traditional to kill to preserve your secrets, but I have found it more efficient to instead k
- 472 “A man should beware of praying for justice when he truly wants vindication. He might just get what
- 473 “A diplomat without a general at his back is just a polite man no one heeds.” – Exarch Acantha of Pe
- 474 “A sinking ship knows no captain.” – Ashuran sayingI wondered if Hasenbach was getting as tired of t
- 475 “A war is not always won with daring, but it is always lost without.” – Florianne Goethal, Princess
- 476 “The only thing more inconvenient than being part of an alliance is not being part of it.” – Prince
- 477 “Do not look down on fear, my friend: it is the rare case of a voice in your head actually helpful t
- 478 “I have been assured that my enemies lie behind every shadow, which is why they will henceforth be i
- 479 “The highest form of victory is not mere triumph over another, but to use such a triumph as the foun
- 480 “I am only seen when blind And dawn always kills me My omens can be divined But my gifts are all emp
- 481 “- one might then wonder if a kingdom’s sufferance of a tyrant for a decade is not worth the inevita
- 482 As of dawn there were eleven villains in Hainaut, if I was considered to stand among their number ev
- 483 He’d been among the first few to arrive after the Black Queen and her attending pair, so the high se
- 484 Seventeen fantassins from three different companies hung from nooses, the wind making them swing sli
- 485 Arranging it had been simple, in a sense. Just a matter of timing, of sensing what people would want
- 486 I knelt, pushing down a twinge of pain, and squinted closely at the copper wire.Obviously my quarter
- 487 The moon hung above us like a nasty grin, the drop was precipitously close and past the lights of th
- 488 Before the Conquest my people’s maps of Praes had tended towards imprecision when it came to the int
- 489 The army set out from Neustal on a warm, sunny morning.I’d been up since before dawn, when our outri
- 490 Keeping pace turned out to be pretty tricky.Zombie’s wings weren’t actually what allowed her to fly,
- 491 It wouldn’t be cheap.The pair from the adjunct secretariat had been dismissed, leaving me with a pil
- 492 Of all the gifts the Sisters had given me, the peculiar sense I had for the coming of dawn and dusk
- 493 We did not come as an army, not the kind I’d raised and led and fought against. The Firstborn follow
- 494 Mighty Brezlej, I spoke into the Night, begin.Brezlej Hundred-Eyes was an oddity by Firstborn standa
- 495 The blades had gone back to the sheaths, so as always the generals were left to the grim business of
- 496 General Abigail looked into the Baalite eye again, wishing generals didn’t have to be on horses.It m
- 497 Princess Beatrice Volignac of Hainaut believed in being honest with herself even when it was painful
- 498 It was a nice afternoon, if you discounted all the dying.As the opening strokes of the second battle
- 499 A brawl. The last blows of the battle not even an hour past, and now they were brawling.Sometimes I
- 500 It was easy to forget that the Grey Pilgrim was, for all the power of his Name and the favour of the