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"When your opponent uses a merely superficial argument and you see through it, you can, it is true, refute it by setting forth its captious character.... But it is better to meet him with a counter-argument which is just as superficial, and so dispose of him." So wrote Schopenhauer in his devilish little book The Art of Always Being Right. "For it is with victory that you are concerned, and not with truth," he added.
Schopenhauer's other sinister advice:
"Conceal your game. If you want to draw a conclusion, you must not let it be foreseen... It is a trick that needs no illustration."

The name of the book alone is enough to get it on my reading list

There is a baseless calumny that Schopenhauer had planned to reveal, on the last page (for one should not reveal the conclusion in advance), that the title should have been "How to sell lots of copies of this book".