ethica

Spinozas ethics and various translations, edited for easy post processing.
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1 This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely
2 in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so
3 eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit
4 certain things to our own or another's hurt: in other cases it
5 is generally called kindliness.  Furthermore I give the name of
6 praise to the pleasure, with which we conceive the action of
7 another, whereby he has endeavoured to please us; but of blame
8 to the pain wherewith we feel aversion to his action.
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