3p39d.md - ethica - Spinozas ethics and various translations, edited for easy post processing.

3p39d.md (718B)

 1 To hate a man is (III. xiii. note) to conceive him as
 2 a cause of pain; therefore he who hates a man will endeavour to
 3 remove or destroy him.  But if anything more painful, or, in
 4 other words, a greater evil, should accrue to the hater
 5 thereby&#x2013;and if the hater thinks he can avoid such evil by not
 6 carrying out the injury, which he planned against the object of
 7 his hate&#x2013;he will desire to abstain from inflicting that injury
 8 (III. xxviii.), and the strength of his endeavour (III. xxxvii.)
 9 will be greater than his former endeavour to do injury, and will
10 therefore prevail over it, as we asserted.  The second part of
11 this proof proceeds in the same manner.  Wherefore he who hates
12 another, etc.  Q.E.D.
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