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So far, then, both are equally affected by wars. But the joys that fall to the citizens of states at war are not experienced by despots.1
1 I.e., in the wars that he wages against his subjects. The whole of this paragraph is obscurely expressed and highly artificial; and it has been variously interpreted. The text also is uncertain.
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