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1 From the foregoing, and also from III. xxviii. it 2 follows that everyone endeavours, as far as possible, to cause 3 others to love what he himself loves, and to hate what he himself 4 hates: as the poet says: "As lovers let us share every hope 5 and every fear: ironhearted were he who should love what the 6 other leaves."[9] 7 8 [9] Ovid, "Amores," II. xix. 4,5. Spinoza transposes the verses. 9 10 "Speremus pariter, pariter metuamus amantes; 11 12 Ferreus est, si quis, quod sinit alter, amat." 13 14