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must be sought elsewhere. It is sought either by demanding tributes and taxes from subjects, or by borrowing, or by pledging or selling dominions and possessions. But if it is neither pleasing nor permitted to seek peace by these means, other paths must be tracked by which you can obtain it. Since, therefore, we were resolving the proposed end into victory and friendship, but we could not achieve victory in any way or not conveniently, it is necessary to move to another order of resolution, namely friendship, which we shall procure for ourselves by yielding to the enemy regarding rights, or by redeeming that. By yielding regarding rights, we secure friendship. But it will be redeemed either by money, the method of seeking which was just explained; or by exchange, or by marriage.

The second [part] from the composition of those things

which were found through resolution.

G Composition is opposed to resolution, just as it is to the Greeks synthesis to analysis synthesis to analysis. Thus, those who know how to resolve also know how to compose, since composition returns to the end in the opposite order: just as those who constitute logic by the order of composition treat first the simple terms, then the propositions, then the syllogism, and finally the demonstration, from which they attain the truth, toward which they tend as a proposed end.