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It is not so, but it is to win these
prizes that he devotes his activities to all those other objects. Therefore each must know and feel in his own mind the
truth of this, but you must not, of course, call for a declaration of war from
the statesman who is trying, in all honesty, to give you the best advice; for
that would be the act of men who want to find someone to fight with, not of men
who seek the interests of their state.1
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