4p12cd.md - ethica - Spinozas ethics and various translations, edited for easy post processing.

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 1 Emotion towards a thing, which we conceive to exist,
 2 is more intense than it would be, if we conceived the thing as
 3 future (IV. ix. Coroll.), and is much more vehement, than if the
 4 future time be conceived as far distant from the present (IV.
 5 x.).  Therefore an emotion towards a thing, whose period of
 6 existence we conceive to be far distant from the present, is far
 7 fainter, than if we conceive the thing as present; it is,
 8 nevertheless, more intense, than if we conceived the thing as
 9 contingent, wherefore an emotion towards a thing, which we regard
10 as contingent, will be far fainter, than if we conceived the
11 thing to be present with us.  Q.E.D.
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