[9]
Again, if
anyone here admits the truth of this, but fancies that Philip will remain master
of the situation, being already in possession of the fortresses and harbors and
other points of vantage, he is mistaken. For when a league is knit together by
goodwill, when all the allied states have the same interests, then the
individual members are willing to remain steadfast, sharing the toil and
enduring the hardships; but when a man has gained power, as Philip has, by
rapacity and crime, then the first pretext, some trifling slip, overthrows and
shatters all.
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