You have been taught to plant insidiously the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and to incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace; to take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother _______, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the _____ might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.
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