Warlike actions are completely so (for no one chooses to be at war, or provokes war, for the sake of being at war; any one would seem absolutely murderous if he were to make enemies of his friends in order to bring about battle and slaughter); but the action of the statesman is also unleisurely, and apart from the political action itself aims at despotic power and honours, or at all events happiness, for him and his fellow citizens a happiness different from political action, and evidently sought as being different.