(38:3) Now these
endeavours are constrained by hatred towards the object of love
([xiii] Coroll. and [xxiii] ); wherefore the lover ([xi] note)
will for this cause also be affected with pain, the more so in proportion
as his love has been greater; that is, in addition to the pain caused by
hatred, there is a pain caused by the fact that he has loved the object;
wherefore the lover will regard the beloved with greater pain, or in
other words, will hate it more than if he had never loved it, and with
the more intensity in proportion as his former love was greater. Q.E.D.
Prop. [XXXIX] He who hates anyone will endeavour to do him an
injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will
thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he
who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to
benefit him.
Proof.- (39:1) To hate a man is ([xiii] note) to conceive him as a
cause of pain; therefore he who hates a man will endeavour to remove or
destroy him. (2) But if anything more painful, or, in other words, a
greater evil, should accrue to the hater thereby and if the hater thinks
he can avoid such evil by not carrying out the injury, which he planned
against the object of his hate he will desire to abstain from inflicting
that injury ([xxviii] ), and the strength of his endeavour
([xxxvii] ) will be greater than his former endeavour to do injury,
and will therefore prevail over it, as we asserted.
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