(2) Therefore he who has
conferred a benefit confers it in obedience to the desire, which he
feels of being loved in return; that is ([xxxiv] ) from the
hope of honour or ([xxx] note) pleasure; hence he will endeavour,
as far as he can, to conceive this cause of honour, or to regard it
as actually existing. (42:3) But, by the hypothesis, he conceives
something else, which excludes the existence of the said cause of
honour: wherefore he will thereat feel pain ([ix] ). Q.E.D.
Prop. [XLIII] Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can
on the other hand be destroyed by love.
Proof.- (43:1) He who conceives, that an object of his hate hates him in
return, will thereupon feel a new hatred, while the former hatred (by
hypothesis) still remains ([xl] ). (2) But if, on the other hand,
he conceives that the object of hate loves him, he will to this extent
([xxxviii] ) regard himself with pleasure, and ([xxix] ) will
endeavour to please the cause of his emotion. (3) In other words, he
will endeavour not to hate him ([xli] ), and not to affect him
painfully; this endeavour ([xxxvii] ) will be greater or less in
proportion to the emotion from which it arises. (43:4) Therefore, if it
be greater than that which arises from hatred, and through which the man
endeavours to affect painfully the thing which he hates, it will get the
better of it and banish the hatred from his mind.
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