Synonyms for stratagems
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1. List of paraphrases for "stratagems":

   ploys, ruses, tricks, schemes

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1. William Shakespeare:

   The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

2. The Rev. William Barber:

   Bernice King actually said that the systems of segregation and voter suppression were stratagems... that were used by the Southern aristocracy to keep the masses of poor Negro voters and White voters from coming together and forming a political power base that could shift the economic architecture of the country, too often today, our leaders are not talking like that.

3. Miguel Cerbantes:

   Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others

4. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice:

   The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

5. John W. Gardner:

   Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.