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1 Though this be so, no one will endeavour to hate 2 anything, or to be affected with pain, for the sake of enjoying 3 this greater pleasure; that is, no one will desire that he 4 should be injured, in the hope of recovering from the injury, nor 5 long to be ill for the sake of getting well. For everyone will 6 always endeavour to persist in his being, and to ward off pain as 7 far as he can. If the contrary is conceivable, namely, that a 8 man should desire to hate someone, in order that he might love 9 him the more thereafter, he will always desire to hate him. For 10 the strength of love is in proportion to the strength of the 11 hatred, wherefore the man would desire, that the hatred be 12 continually increased more and more, and, for a similar reason, 13 he would desire to become more and more ill, in order that he 14 might take a greater pleasure in being restored to health: in 15 such a case he would always endeavour to be ill, which (III. vi.) 16 is absurd. 17 18