3p43d.md (806B)
1 He who conceives, that an object of his hatred hates 2 him in return, will thereupon feel a new hatred, while the former 3 hatred (by hypothesis) still remains (III. xl.). But if, on the 4 other hand, he conceives that the object of hate loves him, he 5 will to this extent (III. xxxviii.) regard himself with pleasure, 6 and (III. xxix.) will endeavour to please the cause of his 7 emotion. In other words, he will endeavour not to hate him (III. 8 xli.), and not to affect him painfully; this endeavour (III. 9 xxxvii.) will be greater or less in proportion to the emotion 10 from which it arises. Therefore, if it be greater than that 11 which arises from hatred, and through which the man endeavours to 12 affect painfully the thing which he hates, it will get the better 13 of it and banish the hatred from his mind. Q.E.D. 14 15