Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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It's not a good thing if you're just looping and checking some condition, but never actually changing the state of the world.

这不是一个好事情，如果你只是循环,检查一些条件，但是永远不要改变世界上的国家。

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Don't seem to impose, don't seek to impose your own high-minded innocence, sometimes called justice, your own high-minded innocence on the requirements of statecraft because it will only lead to ruin.

不要似乎去强加，不要试图去强加,把你高尚的纯真，有时候被称作正义，你自以为的高尚纯真强加到管理国家的,必要条件上去因为它只会导致毁灭。

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