Q.E.D.
Prop. [XLIV] Hatred which is completely vanquished by love
passes into love: and love is thereupon greater
than if hatred had not preceded it.
Proof.- (44:1) The proof proceeds in the same way as ([xxxviii] )
for he who begins to love a thing, which he was wont to hate or regard
with pain, from the very fact of loving, feels pleasure. (2) To this
pleasure involved in love is added the pleasure arising, from aid given
to the endeavour to remove the pain involved in hatred ([xxxvii] ),
accompanied by the idea of the former object of hatred as cause.
Note.- (44:3) Though this be so, no one will endeavour to hate anything,
or to be affected with pain, for the sake of enjoying this greater
pleasure; that is, no one will desire that he should be injured, in
the hope of recovering from the injury, nor long to be ill for the
sake of getting well. (4) For everyone will always endeavour to
persist in his being, and to ward off pain as far as he can. (5) If
the contrary is conceivable, namely, that a man should desire to hate
someone, in order that he might love him the more thereafter, he will
always desire to hate him. (44:6) For the strength of the love is
proportion to the strength of the hatred, wherefore the man would
desire, that the hatred be continually increased more and more, and,
for a similar reason, he would desire to become more and more ill,
in order that he might take a greater pleasure in being restored to
health: in such a case he would always endeavour to be ill, which
([vi] ) is absurd.
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