Il Principe (The Prince), by Niccolò Machiavelli.

Yes, I am well on my way to Evil Overlordship:

“… men ought either be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, but of more serious ones they cannot; therefor the injury that is to be done to a man ought be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
- Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

There is a *special* place in hell reserved for me, I’ll bet.

“To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
- Conan the Barbarian